Word of Mouth

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Poetry. Gay/Lesbian Studies. Edited by Timothy Liu, himself an accomplished poet (VOX ANGELICA, SAY GOODNIGHT), the formidable anthology WORD OF MOUTH covers a vast range of work by twentieth-century gay American poets. Arranged in order of the poets' birthdates, so that the book shades gradually from older luminaries of the poetry scene to bright newcomers, the work here forms a sparkling composite picture of gay poetic sensibility in the U.S. Including Ashbery, Auden, Brainard, Bronk, Duncan, Denby, Doty, Elmslie, Ginsberg, Gunn, Killian, Koestenbaum, Lansing, Mead, Merrill, O'Hara, Phillips, Schuyler, Shurin, Spicer, Wieners, and Williams.

``Preface''

xvi

Timothy Liu

Edwin Denby

``The Subway''

(1)

``Summer''

(1)

``Venice''

(1)

``Villa D'Este''

(1)

``Neighbor sneaks refuse to my roof''

(1)

``At first sight, not Pollock, Kline scared''

(1)

W. H. Auden

``Three Posthumous Poems''

(3)

James Broughton

``Afternoons in Ceylon''

(1)

``Wondrous the Merge''

(5)

William Bronk

``In Our Image, After Our Likeness''

(1)

``Colloquy on a Bed''

(1)

``The Wall''

(1)

``My Shoulder for Robert. Help Us Both.''

(1)

``In April''

(1)

``Bare''

(1)

``What You Can Do''

(1)

``Scanning''

(1)

``The Near Beyond''

(1)

``17 March''

(1)

``Friendly Greeting''

(1)

``Questions for Eros''

(1)

``Duplicity''

(1)

``Your Way Too''

(1)

``Lucifer''

(1)

``Anyway''

(1)

``For My Friend, Jerry, He Drunk''

(1)

Robert Duncan

``Circulations of the Song''

(12)

James Schuyler

``A Head''

(2)

``Letter to a Friend: Who Is Nancy Daum?''

(5)

``Poem''

(1)

``Tom''

(3)

``A View''

(2)

Edward Field

``Dietrich''

(1)

``Garbo''

(2)

``Callas''

(1)

``Whatever Became of: Freud''

(2)

``Post Masturbatum''

(1)

``Getting to Know You''

(1)

from The Poetry File

(5)

Edgar Bowers

``Chaco Canyon''

(4)

Robin Blaser

``Even on Sunday''

(5)

``In Remembrance of Matthew Shepard''

(1)

Jack Spicer

``Orpheus' Song to Apollo''

(1)

``Lives of the Philosophers: Diogenes''

(1)

``When Your Body Brushed Against Mine''

(1)

``The Song of the Bird in the Loins''

(1)

``Some Notes on Whitman for Allen Joyce''

(2)

``Love Poems''

(4)

``A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Landscape''

(4)

Allen Ginsberg

``Sphincter''

(1)

``After the Party''

(1)

``C'mon Pigs of Western Civilization Eat More Grease''

(2)

``Excrement''

(2)

``You know what I'm saying'?''

(1)

``Multiple Identity Questionaire''

(1)

``Things I'll Not Do''

(2)

James Merrill

``Farewell Performance''

(2)

Frank O'Hara

``Naphtha''

(1)

``Poem (`Lana Turner')''

(1)

``Cornkind''

(1)

``For the Chinese New Year & For Bill Berkson''

(5)

John Ashbery

```They Dream Only of America'''

(1)

``Sortes Vergilianae''

(2)

``The Ice-Cream Wars''

100

(1)

``Forgotten Sex''

101

(2)

``The Laughter of Dead Men''

103

(1)

Stephen Jonas

``The Celibate''

104

(1)

``No Saints in 3 Acts''

104

(1)

``Black Orpheus''

105

(1)

``Afta a Bob Creeley Poem''

105

(1)

from Orgasms/Dominations: XII

106

(9)

Gerrit Lansing

``An Inlet of Reality, or Soul''

115

(1)

``Planting the Amplitudes''

116

(1)

``The Curve''

117

(2)

``Blue Decrepit Town''

119

(2)

``To the Boy Charioteer''

121

(2)

Jonathan Williams

``The Look-Out Tower at Mount Venus, Louisiana''

123

(1)

``Syllables in the Form of Leaves''

123

(2)

``The Chameleon''

125

(1)

``Finger Exercises''

125

(1)

``The Anchorite''

126

(1)

``The Distances to the Friend''

127

(1)

``Dangerous Calamus Emotions''

128

(1)

``The Electronic Lyre, Strung with Poets' Sinews''

129

(1)

``Blue Ball Blues''

130

(1)

``The Honey Lamb''

131

(1)

William Dickey

``The Arrival of the Titanic''

132

(1)

``The Death of John Berryman''

132

(1)

``Plum''

133

(1)

``Archæopteryx''

134

(1)

``T.S. Eliot at One Hundred and Seven''

135

(1)

Thom Gunn

``Famous Friends''

136

(1)

``The Problem''

137

(1)

``The Dump''

138

(2)

``A Wood Near Athens''

140

(2)

Richard Howard

``What Word Did the Greeks Have for It?''

142

(3)

``My Last Hustler''

145

(2)

Kenward Elmslie

``Bare Bones''

147

(10)

Taylor Mead

from On Amphetamine and In Europe

157

(10)

Leland Hickman

``Yellowknife Bay''

167

(7)

John Wieners

``The Garbos and Dietrichs''

174

(1)

``A poem for cocksuckers''

174

(1)

``Act #2''

175

(1)

``Two Years Later''

176

(1)

``The Eagle Bar''

177

(1)

``How To Cope with This?''

178

(1)

``Wednesday or Something''

178

(1)

``Youth''

179

(2)

``Here for the Night''

181

(2)

``After the Orgasm''

183

(1)

``The Gay World Has Changed''

183

(2)

Jack Anderson

``The Hurricaine Lamp''

185

(1)

``In the Next Room''

186

(1)

``A Reading of This Poem''

186

(1)

``True Loves''

187

(1)

``A Lecture on Avant-Garde Art''

188

(1)

``A Way of Happening''

189

(2)

``A Partial Index to Myself''

191

(3)

Ronald Johnson

``Beam 11, Finial''

194

(2)

``Beam 16, The Voices''

196

(3)

``Beam 17, The Book of Orpheus''

199

(3)

``Beam 18''

202

(1)

``August 31st---September 5th''

203

(1)

John Giorno

``Pornographic Poem''

204

(2)

``Hi-Risque''

206

(3)

``None of Them Wanted To Go''

209

(4)

James L. White

``The First Time''

213

(1)

``Taken to a Room''

214

(1)

``Making Love to Myself''

215

(1)

``The Salt Ecstasies''

216

(1)

``Oshi''

217

(1)

Frank Bidart

``By These Waters''

218

(1)

``In the Western Night''

218

(3)

``A Coin for Joe, with the Image of a Horse; c. 350-325 BC''

221

(1)

``The Yoke''

222

(1)

``Luggage''

222

(1)

``For the Twentieth Century''

223

(2)

Joe Brainard

from I Remember

225

(9)

Alfred Corn

``Seeing All the Vermeers''

234

(7)

J. D. McClatchy

``Ouija''

241

(6)

Thomas Meyer

``Love's Dial''

247

(7)

Aaron Shurin

``City of Men''

254

(6)

``Full Circle: Postscript to `City of Men'''

260

(1)

from Involuntary Lyrics: XVIII, LXXIII

261

(2)

Jaime Manrique

``1963''

263

(2)

``Leaving Ybor City''

265

(2)

``When They Informed Him''

267

(1)

Reinaldo Arenas

Jaime Manrique

``The Will To Live Manifests Itself''

268

(1)

Reinaldo Arenas

Jaime Manrique

Richard McCann

``After You Died''

269

(1)

``Nights of 1990''

270

(6)

Tim Dlugos

``Desire under the Pines''

276

(1)

``Summer, South Brooklyn''

277

(1)

``Pretty Convincing''

277

(3)

``Here Comes the Bride''

280

(1)

``Ordinary Time''

281

(2)

``D.O.A.''

283

(3)

Tom Carey

``Birthday''

286

(1)

``Gay Pharmacy''

287

(2)

``Bending In''

289

(5)

Boyer Rickel

``Days of'66-'73''

294

(7)

Brad Gooch

``Rain''

301

(1)

``Nude''

302

(2)

``Words To Be Broadcast over Eagle's Nest Sound System---I''

304

(1)

``Words To Be Broadcast over Eagle's Nest Sound System---II''

305

(1)

``An Elizabethan Sonnet for D. W.''

306

(1)

Daniel Hall

``Winged Torso of Eros''

307

(1)

``Pneuma 1967''

307

(1)

``Corpus''

308

(2)

``Mangosteens''

310

(2)

``The New World''

312

(1)

Dan Bellm

``Open House''

313

(1)

``Boy Wearing a Dress''

314

(1)

``True Story''

315

(2)

Kevin Killian

``Cemetery without Crosses''

317

(1)

``Deep Red''

317

(1)

``The Door into Darkness''

318

(1)

``Giallo''

319

(1)

``Inferno''

320

(2)

``The Stendhal Syndrome''

322

(1)

``Suspiria''

323

(1)

``Trauma''

324

(1)

``Zombie''

325

(1)

Dennis Cooper

``BL''

326

(1)

``My Past''

327

(1)

``JFK Jr. to Play Father in Film''

328

(1)

``Darkens''

329

(1)

``Teen Idol''

330

(2)

``Some Whore''

332

(2)

David Trinidad

``Hockney Blue Pool''

334

(1)

``Eighteen to Twenty-One''

335

(3)

``Red Parade''

338

(2)

``Of Mere Plastic''

340

(2)

``Chatty Cathy Villanelle''

342

(1)

Mark Doty

``Difference''

343

(2)

``Crepe de Chine''

345

(3)

``Where You Are''

348

(4)

Forrest Hamer

``Getting Happy''

352

(1)

``Goldsoboro Narrative #24: Second Benediction''

353

(1)

``Goldsoboro Narrative #28''

354

(1)

``A Boy Doesn't Know''

355

(1)

``Crossroads''

356

(1)

Cyrus Cassells

``Sung from a Hospice''

357

(1)

``Fleur''

358

(3)

``Amalgam''

361

(7)

Wayne Koestenbaum

from ``Erotic Collectibles'': ``1978''

368

(1)

from ``Star Vehicles'': ``I'm Not in Darling''

369

(1)

from ``Star Vehicles'': ``The Garbo Index''

369

(2)

``History of Boys''

371

(3)

``Poem for George Platte Lynes''

374

(5)

Carl Phillips

``Elegy''

379

(1)

``King of Hearts''

379

(2)

``Toys''

381

(1)

``Luna Moth''

382

(1)

``Alba: Come''

383

(1)

``Tunnel''

384

(2)

``As from a Quiver of Arrows''

386

(1)

``Meditation: Surrender''

387

(2)

Christopher Davis

``Noli Me Tangere''

389

(1)

``Sangre de Cristo''

389

(2)

``The Knower of the Field''

391

(1)

``The Pseudo-Homosexual''

392

(1)

``Why Not Pleasure the Bigot's Body''

393

(2)

``Nod''

395

(1)

``Against the See-Through Plastic Curtain of the West''

396

(4)

Richard Tayson

``Blood Test''

400

(1)

``Your Feet''

401

(1)

``In Sickness and in Health''

402

(2)

D. A. Powell

``gary asleep in his recliner''

404

(1)

``tall and thin and young and lovely''

405

(1)

``now the mirrored rooms seem comic''

406

(1)

``this is my last trick''

407

(1)

``how would ed lower himself to sleep''

408

(1)

``only the cruisy toilets will suffer this rascal''

409

(1)

``sheet wrapped as a burnoose''

410

(1)

``your torso''

410

(1)

``you're thin again handsome''

411

(1)

``third-world hunger strikes you''

411

(1)

``you don't have syphilis''

412

(1)

``cherry elixir''

412

(1)

Reginald Shepherd

``A Plague for Kit Marlowe''

413

(2)

``Nights and Days of Nineteen-Something''

415

(3)

``The Beautiful''

418

(1)

``Les Semblables''

419

(1)

``Semantics at Four P.M.''

420

(2)

``Little Hands''

422

(3)

Rafael Campo

``A Poet's Education''

425

(3)

``The Battle Hymn of the Republic''

428

(2)

Mark Wunderlich

``Difficult Body''

430

(1)

``Unmade Bed''

431

(1)

``No Place Like Home''

432

(1)

Mark Bibbins

``Slutty''

433

(1)

``Knowing You Could Is Better than Knowing You Will''

434

(1)

``Shine''

435

(1)

``Tingling in the Extremities''

435

(2)

Justin Chin

``Cocksucker's Blues''

437

(3)

``Buffed Fag''

440

(1)

``Lick My Butt''

441

(2)

``Communion, Said the Barfly''

443

(3)

``On Ass Tactics, Aztec Ticks, Aesthetics''

446

(2)

Rodney Phillips

``Afterword''

448

(3)

Selected Bibliography

451

(3)

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