- Subjects
- Published
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New York :
Thunder's Mouth Press
c1999.
- Language
- English
- Other Authors
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- Physical Description
- xxvii, 685 p., 16 p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes index.
- ISBN
- 9781560252276
9781560252368
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Publisher's Note
- Walt Whitman
- Prologue: Voices From Outlaw Heaven
- Poem To The Freaks
- Soul Eyes
- Sitting on a Bench Near TSQuare
- In the Event of My Demise
- Mein Kampf
- American Renegades
- Wild Thing
- Rabbit Man
- 1989 cont./Gorilla in the Midst #6
- From Tombstone as a Lonely Charm (Part 3)
- From Cleveland Undercovers
- From Suburban Monastery Death Poem
- The Bells of Cherokee Ponies
- The suburban prophets (for R.D.D.)
- Poem for Beverly
- Reality Jew (1964)
- From Cleveland: The Rectal Eye Visions
- Revolutionary Letter #1
- Revolutionary Letter #4
- Revolutionary Letter #12
- Revolutionary Letter #29
- Revolutionary Letter #36
- Tracking Bob Dylan
- Wanted Man
- Jesse James and His Boys
- Jesus Christ
- In a Suburb of Thebes
- Night and Fog (San Francisco)
- The Shower Scene in Psycho
- Bagel Shop Jazz
- I, Too, Know What I Am Not
- Would You Wear My Eyes?
- To My Son Parker, Asleep in the Next Room
- Jail Poems 1-34
- Abomunist Manifesto
- Short Speech to My Friends
- How to Proceed in the Arts
- On Jackson Pollock
- (Untitled)
- Ballad of a Bad Boy
- Libya
- Babelogue
- High on Rebellion
- Notebook
- Notes for the Future: August 2, 1998, New York City
- Notes, New York City, 1976
- Ode to a Tijuana Toilet
- 9th and Hennepin
- Beauty Is Everywhere Beaudelaire
- Hiding Places
- On Franz Kline
- Warren Finnerty Riding a Bicycle on 4th Avenue at Midnight Dreaming of Love and Wine and Franz Kline
- Stone of the Heart
- Blues Poem
- One Arm
- Poem to the Seventeenth of November 1962
- Rambling Jack (a biography)
- Chasing Kerouac's Shadow
- On Henry Miller
- A Poem in Prose for My Venus
- Advice to a Young Writer
- The Shortest Novel of Them All
- From a letter to Jim Scully, December 1994
- From The Blood About the Heart
- Europe
- The Recognition #2
- NY, NY
- Haiti
- Buy, Always Consume (by Ferruccio Brugnaro, translated by Jack Hirschman)
- Home
- Act (by Roque Dalton, translated by Jack Hirschman)
- An Essay on William Carlos Williams
- We Bumped off Your Friend the Poet
- I'm Not a Man
- The Ex-Nun and the Gay Poet
- William Carlos Williams
- Classic Frieze in a Garage
- Let Go and Feel Your Nakedness
- At the Cafe Trieste
- Dream of Frank O'Hara
- Letter to Harold Norse, February 14th, 1957
- Ten Outlaw Heroes
- 241st Chorus
- 149th Chorus
- 211th Chorus
- Adventures in Auto-eroticism
- Leaving L.A. by Train at Night, High ...
- Poet Talking to Himself in the Mirror
- Dear Villon
- Poets Hitchhiking on the Highway
- Greenwich Village Suicide
- C'mon Pigs of Western Civilization, Eat More Grease
- Letter to William Carlos Williams, February 23, 1957
- Letter to William Carlos Williams, October 4, 1958
- Letter to Harold Norse, August 26, 1960
- South Central Los Angeles Death Trip, 1982
- From Devoured by Myths, an interview with Sylvere Lotringer
- I Begin to Feel
- The Evening News
- "My Legs Senor."
- Cold Lost Marbles
- A Non-Christian on Sunday
- The Bride Goes Wild
- In His Own Words
- Puerto Rican Obituary
- Telephone Booth number 301
- Telephone Booth number 507
- Telephone Booth number 898 1/2
- Telephone Booth number 63765057
- Telephone Booth number 542
- Telephone Booth number 32439
- The Galilee Hitch-Hiker
- Bike Messenger Leading the People
- Women Are Hungry
- Manifest Destiny
- An Oliver Stone Movie
- From Song of the Open Road, parts 1 and 2
- Walt Whitman Strides the Llano of New Mexico
- These Are My Words, My Neon, Siliconed, Carcinogenic Words. But This Is My Poem, My Poem About Elvis
- Bus
- House of Strangers
- Who Are We?
- The Saddest Man on Earth
- On Reading Whitman's Song of Myself at One O'Clock in the Morning
- Across the Mississippi
- Let Us
- The Crucifixion of Johnny Carson
- Slamdancing to the Blues
- Blasted Youth
- Satan After Hours
- Thief of Fire
- The Night of the Living Tits
- Why Rimbaud Went to Africa
- From The Exploding Parable
- From Clay Man High House Head
- From What I Have Learned About Boxing
- From the Doomsday Bonnet, #16, #27
- Slammers
- The Slam
- Lucky Strike No Strike Back
- The Stroke
- Skinhead
- Medusa
- Debt of Blood
- The Outlaw
- Welcome To McDonalds
- My Life as I Remember It
- In the Hands of the Enemy
- Lineage
- Logic in the House of Sawed-off Telescopes
- Siamese Opposites
- Check One
- I'm an Emotional Idiot
- Scab Maids on Speed
- Jenny's Shirt
- Like Lilly Like Wilson
- William, I Giggled with Your Girlfriend
- Project Princess
- Imagining America
- Mandela
- It's a Good Day
- Chicks Up Front
- The Scalping
- American Renegades
- An American Poem
- Holes
- I Always Put My Pussy ...
- Malcolm
- Marianne Faithfull's Cigarette
- First Date with the D.J.
- For Brandon Teena
- Sailor
- Evolution
- From Tomorrow
- What Is a Jew?
- How to Score
- To Come
- Africa
- I Told You I Like Indians
- Subway Poem
- In the Eye of the Beholder
- Words
- Two Horses
- The Crippled Artist
- Global Inequalities
- The Heavy Headed Dance
- Barney Rosset and The Evergreen Review
- Ernest Hemingway
- The Little Sons of Fidel
- If my Enemy is A Clown, A Natural Born Clown
- To the police officer who refused to sit in the same room as my son because he's a "gang banger"
- Rosalie Has Candles
- Somebody Was Breaking Windows
- Chota
- Believe Me When I Say ...
- Meeting the Animal in Washington Square Park
- Don't Read That Poem!
- It's Dumb to be a Member of a Dominant Species
- For Seattle Boy Sacred Mantle
- From I Am in Danger Nowhere in This World
- Van Gogh
- Sick Art
- Art
- Death
- The Fortune Cookie Man
- To Woody Woodpecker
- Rejected Mafia Nicknames
- Disappointment
- What Kind of Cars They Drove
- Just Go Fuck Yourself
- This Mind Is Buddah
- Tozan's Pretzels
- We Have Chocolate Pudding
- What Is the Beautiful?
- The Scattering of the Ashes: The Burial of a Poet
- Seekin's the Cause
- Twice a Month Is Mother's Day
- Poem--Miguel Pinero
- A Mongo Affair
- Ode to My Mother
- A Wish Come True
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Reasons to Drink
- Molecular Conspiracy
- Playing the Game
- Some Profession
- Brother
- Imago
- Note to Lorca
- A Poem for Jesse
- On Passing thru Morgantown, Pa.
- Prophecy
- Children in the Shelter
- Rehabilitative Report: We Can Still Laugh
- Georgetown Poems (7)
- Culture
- Story
- Psalm XVI
- A chipped black hole
- In the Vicinity of a Grocer
- Lungs of Glass
- Untitled
- Opos
- Boxed City
- First and Last FearPoem
- Untitled
- Gravity
- Testimony
- At the End
- From Beat Thing
- From The Eyes, The Blood
- Compensation Portrait
- Incomplete Directions
- The Saxophone Factory
- The Bones #2
- James Dean
- Meat Poets
- The Mimeo Revolution
- A Bukowski Writing Lesson
- Thinking About Then and Now
- The System
- Poem for the Working Man and the Upper Mobile Yuppie
- Poetry
- Certain Prostitute
- Poem for Paulie
- Frozen Alley
- Jailhouse Dreams #1
- Dead Kid
- No Rain Sunday Morning
- Round Up
- From Machine Gun
- A Threat
- Termination
- Aboard the Bounty
- Land of a Thousand Dances
- Beyond B.F. Skinner
- Paul Cezanne: Self Portrait, 1875
- Paul Cezanne: The Large Bathers, 1906
- On Marvin Malone and The Wormwood Review
- Ten Commandments for How to Successfully Publish a Little Magazine
- American Renegades
- The American Night
- LAmerica
- From Resume
- Punk Rock Royalty
- Video Violence
- Montecito
- On 115
- City Madness
- From Martin XIV
- Chopped Scooter
- The Kid
- Geometry
- Song to Fidel (translated by Ed Dorn and Gordon Brotherston)
- What Is A Saint
- Disguises
- Turtle Blues
- An Aging Radical Muses on His Conjugal Visits
- Collect Telegram from a Mad Dog
- Hobo on Flatcar Eastbound for St. Paul
- Young Boy in Bus Station Coffee Shop
- Man in Harbor Coffee Shop
- 8 Fragments for Kurt Cobain
- Facts
- Jukebox
- The Ocean Below
- With van Gogh
- Rimbaud Sees the Dentist
- School Prayer for the 80's
- The New America
- Great Moments in the History of Capitalism
- Where Is My Wandering Jew
- Paint It Red (and Black)
- The Babarians
- This Is the Babarians
- Lost My Job and Wrote This Poem
- Poetry in Orange County
- In the Bookstore
- Gregory
- The Wino, The Junkie, and The Lord
- I'm Not Mad
- The Real Me
- I Was with Her Long Enough To Change Brands of Cigarettes
- The Living Legend
- On Long Shot
- It's About the End of the World Stupid
- America
- Dear Ezra
- As for Us
- (some) people have enough problems
- Mal de Tete
- American Renegades
- Homage to Hersch
- From High on the Beats
- Wail Bar Night
- Mad Dogs of Trieste
- The Woman at the Palace of the Legion of Honor
- New York Guy in Berlin Night
- Career Move
- Murdered in the Middle of the Dance
- Elsie John
- Path
- Just Say NO to Family Values
- Electronic Multimedia Shamanism
- Letter to Caliban
- From Songs of the Revolution
- Leaflet for Soldiers
- Poem in the Manner of Paul Blackburn
- First Lady
- Marilyn Monroe Is Dead
- Barbie
- You Fucking Cunt
- Billie and Satchmo
- Harvesting Organs: On the Head-Injury Death of a 24 Year Old Boy in Vermont
- Ball and Chain Record Store
- Asteroid Poem #15
- Pact
- For Madeline Gleason
- Was Poe Afraid?
- Cool Hobohemians 1950's Bennies from Heaven Poem
- Displaced Poet
- The states
- In Memorian: Charles Mingus
- For Frank
- From Bones
- Collaborating with Kerouac
- Hey, Jack!
- Jack Kerouac Returns to Lowell after 25 Years
- The Door for Love and Death
- Untitled
- The Suicide Room
- Love Is the Silence
- Untitled
- Venice West
- Untitled
- Memoirs of a Nun of Fire
- Skull
- 7th Sound for John Garfield
- Untitled
- You'll Despise Me for This, But I'm Going to Say It Anyway
- Venice
- Invocation
- and sometimes it all hangs crooked
- Ritual
- The Carma Bums
- The Carma Bums (Because This Is What America's All About)
- Cartoons Are My Life
- I Ate Fig Newtons Until I Puked
- America Poem
- There Is a River
- Sunset Strip Self-Improvement Affirmations
- No Mercy
- I Am the Bomb
- The Word
- American Renegades
- The San Francisco Oracle: A Brief History
- The God I Worship Is a Lion
- Jesus I Am Sick of the Spiritual Warfare!
- After the Cries of the Birds Has Stopped
- Characteristically
- In Transit
- Seed Pods
- Astromancy
- Manifesto for Mutants
- My Life
- Downtown Woman
- Ten Commandments of a Street Poet
- Bukowski Poem
- Handcuffs
- From Slave Sonnet #1
- From Slave Sonnet #7
- From Slave Sonnet #10
- The Wedding of Everything
- This Is the Land of Missed Opportunity
- Suzanne Goes Down
- On Prison Poetry
- To Those
- Sing Sing Sits Up The River
- After All Those Years
- Fugitive
- My Room
- Lap 15512
- My Father
- Trapped
- The Unbearables
- Introduction to The Unbearables
- Archaeology
- Dead Louis
- Factory Still Life
- Kurt Cobain
- God Is Here
- Moral
- The Bus Driver's Secret Song
- Orgasm
- Sound Effects
- Q/A
- Write a fucking poem
- Slave
- Them
- The Professional
- Cafe Ennui
- Panoplistic Traditions in Memphis
- Yardbirds of Vermont
- Manhattan
- Thursday Night in the Park
- Business District
- Spanish Girls
- Mendel's Law
- I Want the Nobel Prize
- Teeth and Totemism
- Untitled
- Red Snappers
- Poets To Come
- Contributors
- Index
- Copyright Acknowledgments
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