Introduction (starting p. 1) / Joseph Torra -- Editor's Note (starting p. 13) -- Exercises for Ear (starting p. 17) -- The Preface to the Reader (starting p. 19) / Gerrit Lansing -- Love, The Poem, The Sea & Other Pieces Examined by Me (starting p. 102) -- Chorale and Hymn (IV, V, & VI) (starting p. 106) -- Word on measure (starting p. 110) -- Blackstone Park (starting p. 114) -- An Ode for Garcia Lorca (starting p. 115) -- Invocation (starting p. 116) -- Complainte de l'oubli des morts (starting p. 117) -- For John Wieners 1/6/60 (starting p. 118) -- Three Dance Moods for Ear (starting p. 120) -- The Celibate (starting p. 122) -- No Saints in 3 Acts (starting p. 123) -- to strum ole Homer's lute (starting p. 124) -- For LeRoi Jones (starting p. 125) -- Roots -- For Tom Balas (starting p. 125) -- Altar (starting p. 126) -- Song after Waller, Herrick & Others (starting p. 127) -- One of Three Musicians (starting p. 128) -- After Catullus I (starting p. 129) -- Black Orpheus (starting p. 129) -- What Made Maud Hum (starting p. 130) -- "Gloucester" (Impressions for J. W. III) (starting p. 136) -- Advertisements of the Tribes (starting p. 139) -- Back 'o Town Blues (starting p. 146) -- Musique Ancien (starting p. 147) -- The Spring & Summer Annual (1968) (starting p. 147) -- brotherhood & all that bad air (starting p. 148) -- Afta a Bob Creeley Poem (starting p. 149) -- Dilemma II (starting p. 150) -- Brisk Walk to the Pavilion of Good Crops & Peace (Three Versions from the Chinese) "Trees all got up & deck'd out," "Trees horny w/leaves," On the Esplanade (starting p. 152) -- The Music Master (starting p. 154) -- Morphogenesis (being a conventionalization of "Morphemes" of Jack Spicer (starting p. 156) -- Cante Jondo for Soul Brother Jack Spicer, His Beloved California & Andalusia of Lorca (starting p. 160) -- VII "nigger youngblood" (starting p. 165) -- IX "get bombed, piss'd in" (starting p. 165) -- XII "she' only wanted to" (starting p. 166) -- XV "dirty niggers" (starting p. 166) -- XXIII "you know, honey, it's great" (starting p. 167) -- XXXIII "O FVRVM optime balneariorum" (starting p. 168) -- XXXV "Oh no, you have to keep" (starting p. 168) -- XXXVI "say God came back" (starting p. 169) -- LXI "this grisly ole lout" (starting p. 170) -- LXVI "The First Matter of the spiritual work" (starting p. 171) -- LXXXIII "LESBIA me praesente viro mala plurima dicit" (starting p. 172) -- Appendix: from Jonas's notebook (starting p. 248)