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A Lehusa Be (AH-lay-HOO-zuh-BAY)
A Couple of Good Pianos
A Lehúsa Be
Badiou and the Truth-Event: A Review of Badiou's Ethics
John, Paul, Jacques and Teddy
New Worlds, Old Worlds
Norado Defended Against His Devotees
On the Back of a Dream Car Twenty Feet Long
The Fifth Marx
The Third Nature
About Gilchrist Haas
Baron, All Too Baron
The Poet and the Steeple on Her Rock
The Prince, the Visitor, and the Tenth Orderly
The Glowing Hook
The Solar Year
Aboard the S.S. Giapetto
One That Would Consent to Be Told
The Bildungsroman of the Roaming Baron
The Wanderer of the Earth
To Want to Want or Not to Want to Want
Underway
Baron Epigraph
Chronicling the Era of Common Fun
[Title, Dedication, and Epigraphs]
A Confusion Beyond Sound
Finders Keepers
If It Weren't for the Beasts
In the Margins and the Corners
Neither Entirely Old nor Entirely New
Of Those Who Went Over and of Those Who Held Out
One Venue, One Accord
Out of the Darkness
Rolling Our Way
The Fact of the Breach
The Greater Men of Menahmen
The Lesser Accord
The Lines Are Not the Same
The Manuscripts and the Reservoir
The Matter of a Venue
The Song of Menahmen, Man of Men
The Real and the True
The Shadows of the Greater Men
The Sole Remaining Tenants
The Unmade
What Was Best for Them
Get Out!
Molly's Song (and Other Poems)
Broken Radio
Sloppy Joe in America and Out
Silk Road
Suddenly
Two Ridiculous Poems
Asshole
Seven Progressively Better Poems
Somewhere Along That Long and Winding Road
What Schiller Really Said (or, Two Misanthropic Maxims)
Ivy
tales of yo
Belling a Happy Apogee at the Well of Unsold Melody
[Epigraph]
Opus Seven
Crawling Calliope Epigraph
[Opus Seven Title Page]
Preface: Flaschenpost
Ten Weeks
Kerouac Transcriptions
Locomotive Breath
temperament
Lady Fingers [epigraph]
The Future is Fine (Theme and Interpellations)
Opus Seven [Postscript and Dedication]
Your Restless Clang
Up Close and from Afar
The Great
Tiger's Leap
Sitemap
Other Poems, Etc.
A Subjacent Hideaway
Five Theses
Getting in Tune
Haas at Forty
Milton with Aristotle
Pages in a Second Round: A Verse Interword
Singapore (Full Version)
Steeplechase
Haas at Sixty (Part One)
Pages in a Second Round
[Pages Dedication and Epigraph]
Prolegomena
All That We Could Do
In Our Own Image
For the Better Enjoyment of My Wine
Angelology
Language's Cancun
When the New World Was Still Being Peopled
Trailing the Emperor
The Way
The Spaces in Which Things Happen
Down Through the Village
The Greater Remove
The Gliding Intervals
The Waking Contender
The Way to Show Piety
Limits and Distinctions
Around the Pole
Zarathustra's Lament
The Hundred Pacer
The Right Avowal
After the Giants
Life Is a Turtle
The Southernmost Curve
This Other Earth
The Anecdotal Baron
According to Wit
Down in the Rubble
Children's Corner
Color-by-Numbers
Aloof in the Flesh
Our Greatest Boons
England
To Be Taken Up Again
Epigram
The Greatest Satisfaction
On the Good Ship Lollipop
In the Second Half of the Chapter
No Fun at All
My Former Agent
Glossolalia
Some Things You Might Not Know
Where We Never Left Off
As If They Were My Own
What We Were Left With
Among the Nettles
Bacchanal
Midway Through the Final Act
Surrey, Sidney and Wyatt
Before the Gunrest
Fricka or Hera in One of Her Rages
Wotan or Zeus in One of His
The Answerer
Abecedarian
Stirring the Ashes
In the Bastille
It's the Baron!
The Sage Reasons with Himself
In the Temple
The Poem of the World
My Father's Name
Edicts
If Something's Missing
Quotidian
Watching Rover
Meaner Mirrors
Into Their Pits
Coffee or Tea?
Webbed Feet
Horse Hoofs
The Middle Kingdom
Kindermärchen
The Way People Are
Rolled and Unrolled
Pages in a Second Round: A Verse Interword
Reading Adorno: Book One
The Emerald Gong (and Other Poems)
[Epigraph]
Amid Your Planetary Pumps
As Jagger Says (or, The Feeling That We Haven't Done Enough)
Ballad of the Furloughs
Beyond the Pales of the Hundredth Station (or, Ducking the Punches)
Book of Faces
Brilliant Corners
Buddha Breath
Common Core? Common Snore!
Cosmic Clutch
Cosmic Platform (or, Ready as Ever)
Fallen Chessmen
Fiona and Her Extraordinary Machine
Four Lyrical Renditions
From the Valley of Shifting Sands
Go, Trane!
Harmonia, Pythagoras and the Blacksmiths of Samos
Her Shadow and Mrs. M (or, Smarter Every Day)
Herein Housed (or, Some Folks Within These Prints)
In a Poem
Introducing Mr. Ed Deform
Inviolable
Like Ferdinand (or, Taurus Moon)
Love Song
Man of Straw
More Time (Litany on a Common Desire)
My Five Dreams (or, All You Have to Do Is Knock)
My Horoscope (or, Baser Quartz)
My Natal Chart
My Twelve Houses
No McNuggets! (or, Gnomic Nuggets)
North Node in Gemini
Ode to Texting
Our Buoyant Earth (or, Everyman's Sestina)
Our Daily Bread
Our Pleasure
Prayer to Honolulu
Precious Schlock (In memoriam Lou Reed)
Race to the Top (or, A Nation Still at Risk)
Sabbath (or, The Sanctity of Rest)
Sated Hands
Shiny Happy Flyers*
So They Say
Stranger Strands (In memoriam Gabriel Garcia Márquez)
Sub specie aeternitatis (or, Quite Provisional)
Taiwan Dzei Dzou ("Made in Taiwan")
Teaching the Standards
The Ascent of Man (or, A Bone to Pick)
The Basement Tapes
The Bladder of Rhyme
The Data Child
The Doors (In Memoriam Ray Manzarek)
The Emerald Gong
The Final Words of Tsunesaburo Makiguchi
The Middle Way
The Next Few Pages
The Pathless Land
The Prince of Spots
The Songs That Molly Used to Sing
The Ten Worlds of Nichiren Daishonin (or, Claiming Our Buddhahood)
The Tower of Song
There's No THERE There
Tropes
Vanity and Chrome
Walk On!
Welcome to the Desert of the Real
The Buddha's Five Remembrances
Adorning Our Days
To Each His Koan
Token Lines
Form and Fire (Haas at Fifty)
The Wild Toccata
Along the Cosmic Path (or, Beethoven's Final String Quartet)
Calliope
What It Meant
To My Friend
Splendiferous Machines
Oblique Strategies (Cantos 1-4)
Obliquity
Giant Steps (or, Always Underway)
Remember Quiet Nights
Why We're Here
Your You of Now
Approaching the Penultimate
Penultimate
In Verse and Dreams
Indigo Traveler
The Man in the Poem (2008)
"Purple Cow" Stanzas (1991)
3 Limericks
A Dozen Pose Proems
A Picture of the Younger Laroon
A Twice-Told Tale
Accordion
Aesop's Lament
Allegro Joculoso
An Earlier Chapter
An Invariable Moon
Angie in the Rain
Anonymous Bosch
Apollo
Art's a Blast!
As Laughter Does
As They Scuff Their Shoes
As You Walk Through Your Play
As You Walk through Your Poem
At Large
At Rehearsal A
At the Grand Hotel
Audio Files
Before Breaking the Bread
Blooming and Withering
Bringing It All Back Home
Brothers' Drinking Song
Chronicling the Tyranny of Pooh
Dedication
Diaspora
Eager in the Wing
Eight Rilkean Poems
Elderly Woman with Bound Feet
Epigraph: The Mover
Etude of Immanence
Everyman's Spring
Exodus 31:19-27
Fifty Links
Fishtails
Fleeing Bethlehem
For Jay
For Jeff and Joanne
For Stella Penelope
Foucault Transcription
From Ibeza to the Norfolk Broads
From Jaw to Jaw
From Rung to Rung
G-Day in the Americas
Galapagos
Getting There
Gong Xi Fa Cai
Gooing Up My Teas
Haiku
Heading down the Hill from Northhead
High in May
History as a Life to the Given Life
History as a Moveable Bead on a Timeline
History as a Spore
How the Giants Were Born
Hu and Shu in the Kingdom of Chaos
If I Ran the Show
In Murky Flats
In the Kingdom of Montaigne
In the Year of the Expanding Man
Intervention: It Matters Little Who You Are
Into the Breach
It Must Be Taught
Judy's Jungle
Kilroy Was Here
Language's Brass Spittoon
Left with the Helves
Legal Tinder
Letter to Heather
Leviticus
Lexicography
Lullaby
Making the Poem
Molly's Song
Monadology I
Monadology II
Monadology III
Monadology IV
My Friend Freda
My Likenesses
My Nativity
My Sobriquet
Neal Cassady
Nietzsche Transcription
Nothing Was Spoken
O reine Übersteigung!
Or So It Seemed
Our Mozart
Pierre Bezallion
Pierrot Lunaire
Poem for Bob Dylan
Poor Pindar
The Channeled Way
Poor Pindar, Again
Pope Gregory and the Visitation
Prayer in Autumn
Prelude in A Minor
Robert Hunter
Rock of Ages
Schoenberg's Second String Quartet
Sigh (for Wu Bai)
Singapore
Somewhere down the Road
Spring City, PA
Stanzas
Stepping Out
Ten Weeks
That Other Place
The Abandoned Shell
The Big Squint
The Book of Life
The Buzzing of the Bee
The Case against the Rightful Heir
The Central Dais
The Charter of the Realm
The Cicada and the Phong
The Company Agent
The Crucial Point
The Death of Confucius
The Dream of the Butterfly
The Dream of the Grand Assumption
The Dual Ends
The Era of Common Fun
The Fifth Marx
The Germinatrix
The Lettered Melee
The Lost Fragments of Hippo and Melissus
The Lost Theatre of Quiverbow at Nova
The Man in the Poem
The Mark That Matter Most
The Marks That Matter Most
The Merman and Mr. Jones
The Millenarian Abecedarian
The Myth of the Final Face
The Name
The Naming of Cats
The Next Man on the Dump
The Passionate Repeats
The People on the Train
The Poem at the Foxhole Inn
The Pretzel
The Realm of the Blessed
The Republic of a Thousand Years
The Season's Braille
The Shadow and the Penumbra
The Story of Civilization
The Strategist of a Secret
My Rod and My Staff and My Other I
The Taskmaster
The Third Nature
The Tortoise and the Hare
The Trenchant Word
The Truest Poem
The Untimely Baron
The Whiteness of Bone
The Window and the Faces in the Rain
The World's Second Funniest Joke
Their Greatest Gifts
This Walled Aporia
Three Poems
Three Poems Plus One
June 28, 1914
Three Verse Essays
Through the Longuers
To Where the Others Fled
Too Early on Their Mission
Trinkets and Runnels
Two Poems for Voo
Upon a Plotted Terrain
Waiting for Wings
Wallace Stevens
Walt Whitman
What Beckmesser Said to the Prospective Sharer
What the Owl of Death Said
When the Lights Are Out
On Your Way into Sleep
Where the Fun Is
While We Were Sleeping
Williams and All
Writing Regina's Sestina
You and I, By and By
You're It!
Your Timeless Riff
The Stage with No True North
[Cast of Characters]
Act Five
Act Four
Act One
Act Three
Act Two
Title and Dedication
And Dragons in the Crease
Two Non-sonnets for Gretchen
Our Spinning Feast
Nobody Again but Me
Poem for My Wife, in Anticipation of an Empty Nest
The Palindromic Means and Ends of Sleep
The Ugliest American
Alternative Facts
Equity
Douglass Speaks
Individual One
The Weight, 2020
The Dark Star of Gilchrist Haas
Frickin' Freight
Kicking an Old Tin Can
Sestina of Myself
Stop Breaking Down
Accessing the Real (or, Dazzling Chrome)
The Age of Prose
I'll Buy a Drone to Fly Inside My Head
Sarabande
Shadow Life (or, Like Fey Bo Peep)
The Song in My Head
Material
Furlongs Thick and Fathoms Deep
Forked Lightning (Ten New Villanelles)
Villanellian Epithalamion
Human Minute
The Appointment
Tongue Gone Numb
Fixed Fire (or, My Leonine Tao)
Something Else (or, Our Samenesses)
Some Sentences
No Concession
Conjecturing Post-Odyssey
Our Spinning Feast
To My Wife
Some Things That Sleep Should Not Be Interrupted By
Some Other Things That Sleep Might (or Mightn't) Interrupt
; [semi-colon]
My Next Poem
Piano Videos of Andy Jones
Master Index of Poems
The Poetry of Gilchrist Haas
Home
A Lehusa Be (AH-lay-HOO-zuh-BAY)
A Couple of Good Pianos
A Lehúsa Be
Badiou and the Truth-Event: A Review of Badiou's Ethics
John, Paul, Jacques and Teddy
New Worlds, Old Worlds
Norado Defended Against His Devotees
On the Back of a Dream Car Twenty Feet Long
The Fifth Marx
The Third Nature
About Gilchrist Haas
Baron, All Too Baron
The Poet and the Steeple on Her Rock
The Prince, the Visitor, and the Tenth Orderly
The Glowing Hook
The Solar Year
Aboard the S.S. Giapetto
One That Would Consent to Be Told
The Bildungsroman of the Roaming Baron
The Wanderer of the Earth
To Want to Want or Not to Want to Want
Underway
Baron Epigraph
Chronicling the Era of Common Fun
[Title, Dedication, and Epigraphs]
A Confusion Beyond Sound
Finders Keepers
If It Weren't for the Beasts
In the Margins and the Corners
Neither Entirely Old nor Entirely New
Of Those Who Went Over and of Those Who Held Out
One Venue, One Accord
Out of the Darkness
Rolling Our Way
The Fact of the Breach
The Greater Men of Menahmen
The Lesser Accord
The Lines Are Not the Same
The Manuscripts and the Reservoir
The Matter of a Venue
The Song of Menahmen, Man of Men
The Real and the True
The Shadows of the Greater Men
The Sole Remaining Tenants
The Unmade
What Was Best for Them
Get Out!
Molly's Song (and Other Poems)
Broken Radio
Sloppy Joe in America and Out
Silk Road
Suddenly
Two Ridiculous Poems
Asshole
Seven Progressively Better Poems
Somewhere Along That Long and Winding Road
What Schiller Really Said (or, Two Misanthropic Maxims)
Ivy
tales of yo
Belling a Happy Apogee at the Well of Unsold Melody
[Epigraph]
Opus Seven
Crawling Calliope Epigraph
[Opus Seven Title Page]
Preface: Flaschenpost
Ten Weeks
Kerouac Transcriptions
Locomotive Breath
temperament
Lady Fingers [epigraph]
The Future is Fine (Theme and Interpellations)
Opus Seven [Postscript and Dedication]
Your Restless Clang
Up Close and from Afar
The Great
Tiger's Leap
Sitemap
Other Poems, Etc.
A Subjacent Hideaway
Five Theses
Getting in Tune
Haas at Forty
Milton with Aristotle
Pages in a Second Round: A Verse Interword
Singapore (Full Version)
Steeplechase
Haas at Sixty (Part One)
Pages in a Second Round
[Pages Dedication and Epigraph]
Prolegomena
All That We Could Do
In Our Own Image
For the Better Enjoyment of My Wine
Angelology
Language's Cancun
When the New World Was Still Being Peopled
Trailing the Emperor
The Way
The Spaces in Which Things Happen
Down Through the Village
The Greater Remove
The Gliding Intervals
The Waking Contender
The Way to Show Piety
Limits and Distinctions
Around the Pole
Zarathustra's Lament
The Hundred Pacer
The Right Avowal
After the Giants
Life Is a Turtle
The Southernmost Curve
This Other Earth
The Anecdotal Baron
According to Wit
Down in the Rubble
Children's Corner
Color-by-Numbers
Aloof in the Flesh
Our Greatest Boons
England
To Be Taken Up Again
Epigram
The Greatest Satisfaction
On the Good Ship Lollipop
In the Second Half of the Chapter
No Fun at All
My Former Agent
Glossolalia
Some Things You Might Not Know
Where We Never Left Off
As If They Were My Own
What We Were Left With
Among the Nettles
Bacchanal
Midway Through the Final Act
Surrey, Sidney and Wyatt
Before the Gunrest
Fricka or Hera in One of Her Rages
Wotan or Zeus in One of His
The Answerer
Abecedarian
Stirring the Ashes
In the Bastille
It's the Baron!
The Sage Reasons with Himself
In the Temple
The Poem of the World
My Father's Name
Edicts
If Something's Missing
Quotidian
Watching Rover
Meaner Mirrors
Into Their Pits
Coffee or Tea?
Webbed Feet
Horse Hoofs
The Middle Kingdom
Kindermärchen
The Way People Are
Rolled and Unrolled
Pages in a Second Round: A Verse Interword
Reading Adorno: Book One
The Emerald Gong (and Other Poems)
[Epigraph]
Amid Your Planetary Pumps
As Jagger Says (or, The Feeling That We Haven't Done Enough)
Ballad of the Furloughs
Beyond the Pales of the Hundredth Station (or, Ducking the Punches)
Book of Faces
Brilliant Corners
Buddha Breath
Common Core? Common Snore!
Cosmic Clutch
Cosmic Platform (or, Ready as Ever)
Fallen Chessmen
Fiona and Her Extraordinary Machine
Four Lyrical Renditions
From the Valley of Shifting Sands
Go, Trane!
Harmonia, Pythagoras and the Blacksmiths of Samos
Her Shadow and Mrs. M (or, Smarter Every Day)
Herein Housed (or, Some Folks Within These Prints)
In a Poem
Introducing Mr. Ed Deform
Inviolable
Like Ferdinand (or, Taurus Moon)
Love Song
Man of Straw
More Time (Litany on a Common Desire)
My Five Dreams (or, All You Have to Do Is Knock)
My Horoscope (or, Baser Quartz)
My Natal Chart
My Twelve Houses
No McNuggets! (or, Gnomic Nuggets)
North Node in Gemini
Ode to Texting
Our Buoyant Earth (or, Everyman's Sestina)
Our Daily Bread
Our Pleasure
Prayer to Honolulu
Precious Schlock (In memoriam Lou Reed)
Race to the Top (or, A Nation Still at Risk)
Sabbath (or, The Sanctity of Rest)
Sated Hands
Shiny Happy Flyers*
So They Say
Stranger Strands (In memoriam Gabriel Garcia Márquez)
Sub specie aeternitatis (or, Quite Provisional)
Taiwan Dzei Dzou ("Made in Taiwan")
Teaching the Standards
The Ascent of Man (or, A Bone to Pick)
The Basement Tapes
The Bladder of Rhyme
The Data Child
The Doors (In Memoriam Ray Manzarek)
The Emerald Gong
The Final Words of Tsunesaburo Makiguchi
The Middle Way
The Next Few Pages
The Pathless Land
The Prince of Spots
The Songs That Molly Used to Sing
The Ten Worlds of Nichiren Daishonin (or, Claiming Our Buddhahood)
The Tower of Song
There's No THERE There
Tropes
Vanity and Chrome
Walk On!
Welcome to the Desert of the Real
The Buddha's Five Remembrances
Adorning Our Days
To Each His Koan
Token Lines
Form and Fire (Haas at Fifty)
The Wild Toccata
Along the Cosmic Path (or, Beethoven's Final String Quartet)
Calliope
What It Meant
To My Friend
Splendiferous Machines
Oblique Strategies (Cantos 1-4)
Obliquity
Giant Steps (or, Always Underway)
Remember Quiet Nights
Why We're Here
Your You of Now
Approaching the Penultimate
Penultimate
In Verse and Dreams
Indigo Traveler
The Man in the Poem (2008)
"Purple Cow" Stanzas (1991)
3 Limericks
A Dozen Pose Proems
A Picture of the Younger Laroon
A Twice-Told Tale
Accordion
Aesop's Lament
Allegro Joculoso
An Earlier Chapter
An Invariable Moon
Angie in the Rain
Anonymous Bosch
Apollo
Art's a Blast!
As Laughter Does
As They Scuff Their Shoes
As You Walk Through Your Play
As You Walk through Your Poem
At Large
At Rehearsal A
At the Grand Hotel
Audio Files
Before Breaking the Bread
Blooming and Withering
Bringing It All Back Home
Brothers' Drinking Song
Chronicling the Tyranny of Pooh
Dedication
Diaspora
Eager in the Wing
Eight Rilkean Poems
Elderly Woman with Bound Feet
Epigraph: The Mover
Etude of Immanence
Everyman's Spring
Exodus 31:19-27
Fifty Links
Fishtails
Fleeing Bethlehem
For Jay
For Jeff and Joanne
For Stella Penelope
Foucault Transcription
From Ibeza to the Norfolk Broads
From Jaw to Jaw
From Rung to Rung
G-Day in the Americas
Galapagos
Getting There
Gong Xi Fa Cai
Gooing Up My Teas
Haiku
Heading down the Hill from Northhead
High in May
History as a Life to the Given Life
History as a Moveable Bead on a Timeline
History as a Spore
How the Giants Were Born
Hu and Shu in the Kingdom of Chaos
If I Ran the Show
In Murky Flats
In the Kingdom of Montaigne
In the Year of the Expanding Man
Intervention: It Matters Little Who You Are
Into the Breach
It Must Be Taught
Judy's Jungle
Kilroy Was Here
Language's Brass Spittoon
Left with the Helves
Legal Tinder
Letter to Heather
Leviticus
Lexicography
Lullaby
Making the Poem
Molly's Song
Monadology I
Monadology II
Monadology III
Monadology IV
My Friend Freda
My Likenesses
My Nativity
My Sobriquet
Neal Cassady
Nietzsche Transcription
Nothing Was Spoken
O reine Übersteigung!
Or So It Seemed
Our Mozart
Pierre Bezallion
Pierrot Lunaire
Poem for Bob Dylan
Poor Pindar
The Channeled Way
Poor Pindar, Again
Pope Gregory and the Visitation
Prayer in Autumn
Prelude in A Minor
Robert Hunter
Rock of Ages
Schoenberg's Second String Quartet
Sigh (for Wu Bai)
Singapore
Somewhere down the Road
Spring City, PA
Stanzas
Stepping Out
Ten Weeks
That Other Place
The Abandoned Shell
The Big Squint
The Book of Life
The Buzzing of the Bee
The Case against the Rightful Heir
The Central Dais
The Charter of the Realm
The Cicada and the Phong
The Company Agent
The Crucial Point
The Death of Confucius
The Dream of the Butterfly
The Dream of the Grand Assumption
The Dual Ends
The Era of Common Fun
The Fifth Marx
The Germinatrix
The Lettered Melee
The Lost Fragments of Hippo and Melissus
The Lost Theatre of Quiverbow at Nova
The Man in the Poem
The Mark That Matter Most
The Marks That Matter Most
The Merman and Mr. Jones
The Millenarian Abecedarian
The Myth of the Final Face
The Name
The Naming of Cats
The Next Man on the Dump
The Passionate Repeats
The People on the Train
The Poem at the Foxhole Inn
The Pretzel
The Realm of the Blessed
The Republic of a Thousand Years
The Season's Braille
The Shadow and the Penumbra
The Story of Civilization
The Strategist of a Secret
My Rod and My Staff and My Other I
The Taskmaster
The Third Nature
The Tortoise and the Hare
The Trenchant Word
The Truest Poem
The Untimely Baron
The Whiteness of Bone
The Window and the Faces in the Rain
The World's Second Funniest Joke
Their Greatest Gifts
This Walled Aporia
Three Poems
Three Poems Plus One
June 28, 1914
Three Verse Essays
Through the Longuers
To Where the Others Fled
Too Early on Their Mission
Trinkets and Runnels
Two Poems for Voo
Upon a Plotted Terrain
Waiting for Wings
Wallace Stevens
Walt Whitman
What Beckmesser Said to the Prospective Sharer
What the Owl of Death Said
When the Lights Are Out
On Your Way into Sleep
Where the Fun Is
While We Were Sleeping
Williams and All
Writing Regina's Sestina
You and I, By and By
You're It!
Your Timeless Riff
The Stage with No True North
[Cast of Characters]
Act Five
Act Four
Act One
Act Three
Act Two
Title and Dedication
And Dragons in the Crease
Two Non-sonnets for Gretchen
Our Spinning Feast
Nobody Again but Me
Poem for My Wife, in Anticipation of an Empty Nest
The Palindromic Means and Ends of Sleep
The Ugliest American
Alternative Facts
Equity
Douglass Speaks
Individual One
The Weight, 2020
The Dark Star of Gilchrist Haas
Frickin' Freight
Kicking an Old Tin Can
Sestina of Myself
Stop Breaking Down
Accessing the Real (or, Dazzling Chrome)
The Age of Prose
I'll Buy a Drone to Fly Inside My Head
Sarabande
Shadow Life (or, Like Fey Bo Peep)
The Song in My Head
Material
Furlongs Thick and Fathoms Deep
Forked Lightning (Ten New Villanelles)
Villanellian Epithalamion
Human Minute
The Appointment
Tongue Gone Numb
Fixed Fire (or, My Leonine Tao)
Something Else (or, Our Samenesses)
Some Sentences
No Concession
Conjecturing Post-Odyssey
Our Spinning Feast
To My Wife
Some Things That Sleep Should Not Be Interrupted By
Some Other Things That Sleep Might (or Mightn't) Interrupt
; [semi-colon]
My Next Poem
Piano Videos of Andy Jones
Master Index of Poems
More
Home
A Lehusa Be (AH-lay-HOO-zuh-BAY)
A Couple of Good Pianos
A Lehúsa Be
Badiou and the Truth-Event: A Review of Badiou's Ethics
John, Paul, Jacques and Teddy
New Worlds, Old Worlds
Norado Defended Against His Devotees
On the Back of a Dream Car Twenty Feet Long
The Fifth Marx
The Third Nature
About Gilchrist Haas
Baron, All Too Baron
The Poet and the Steeple on Her Rock
The Prince, the Visitor, and the Tenth Orderly
The Glowing Hook
The Solar Year
Aboard the S.S. Giapetto
One That Would Consent to Be Told
The Bildungsroman of the Roaming Baron
The Wanderer of the Earth
To Want to Want or Not to Want to Want
Underway
Baron Epigraph
Chronicling the Era of Common Fun
[Title, Dedication, and Epigraphs]
A Confusion Beyond Sound
Finders Keepers
If It Weren't for the Beasts
In the Margins and the Corners
Neither Entirely Old nor Entirely New
Of Those Who Went Over and of Those Who Held Out
One Venue, One Accord
Out of the Darkness
Rolling Our Way
The Fact of the Breach
The Greater Men of Menahmen
The Lesser Accord
The Lines Are Not the Same
The Manuscripts and the Reservoir
The Matter of a Venue
The Song of Menahmen, Man of Men
The Real and the True
The Shadows of the Greater Men
The Sole Remaining Tenants
The Unmade
What Was Best for Them
Get Out!
Molly's Song (and Other Poems)
Broken Radio
Sloppy Joe in America and Out
Silk Road
Suddenly
Two Ridiculous Poems
Asshole
Seven Progressively Better Poems
Somewhere Along That Long and Winding Road
What Schiller Really Said (or, Two Misanthropic Maxims)
Ivy
tales of yo
Belling a Happy Apogee at the Well of Unsold Melody
[Epigraph]
Opus Seven
Crawling Calliope Epigraph
[Opus Seven Title Page]
Preface: Flaschenpost
Ten Weeks
Kerouac Transcriptions
Locomotive Breath
temperament
Lady Fingers [epigraph]
The Future is Fine (Theme and Interpellations)
Opus Seven [Postscript and Dedication]
Your Restless Clang
Up Close and from Afar
The Great
Tiger's Leap
Sitemap
Other Poems, Etc.
A Subjacent Hideaway
Five Theses
Getting in Tune
Haas at Forty
Milton with Aristotle
Pages in a Second Round: A Verse Interword
Singapore (Full Version)
Steeplechase
Haas at Sixty (Part One)
Pages in a Second Round
[Pages Dedication and Epigraph]
Prolegomena
All That We Could Do
In Our Own Image
For the Better Enjoyment of My Wine
Angelology
Language's Cancun
When the New World Was Still Being Peopled
Trailing the Emperor
The Way
The Spaces in Which Things Happen
Down Through the Village
The Greater Remove
The Gliding Intervals
The Waking Contender
The Way to Show Piety
Limits and Distinctions
Around the Pole
Zarathustra's Lament
The Hundred Pacer
The Right Avowal
After the Giants
Life Is a Turtle
The Southernmost Curve
This Other Earth
The Anecdotal Baron
According to Wit
Down in the Rubble
Children's Corner
Color-by-Numbers
Aloof in the Flesh
Our Greatest Boons
England
To Be Taken Up Again
Epigram
The Greatest Satisfaction
On the Good Ship Lollipop
In the Second Half of the Chapter
No Fun at All
My Former Agent
Glossolalia
Some Things You Might Not Know
Where We Never Left Off
As If They Were My Own
What We Were Left With
Among the Nettles
Bacchanal
Midway Through the Final Act
Surrey, Sidney and Wyatt
Before the Gunrest
Fricka or Hera in One of Her Rages
Wotan or Zeus in One of His
The Answerer
Abecedarian
Stirring the Ashes
In the Bastille
It's the Baron!
The Sage Reasons with Himself
In the Temple
The Poem of the World
My Father's Name
Edicts
If Something's Missing
Quotidian
Watching Rover
Meaner Mirrors
Into Their Pits
Coffee or Tea?
Webbed Feet
Horse Hoofs
The Middle Kingdom
Kindermärchen
The Way People Are
Rolled and Unrolled
Pages in a Second Round: A Verse Interword
Reading Adorno: Book One
The Emerald Gong (and Other Poems)
[Epigraph]
Amid Your Planetary Pumps
As Jagger Says (or, The Feeling That We Haven't Done Enough)
Ballad of the Furloughs
Beyond the Pales of the Hundredth Station (or, Ducking the Punches)
Book of Faces
Brilliant Corners
Buddha Breath
Common Core? Common Snore!
Cosmic Clutch
Cosmic Platform (or, Ready as Ever)
Fallen Chessmen
Fiona and Her Extraordinary Machine
Four Lyrical Renditions
From the Valley of Shifting Sands
Go, Trane!
Harmonia, Pythagoras and the Blacksmiths of Samos
Her Shadow and Mrs. M (or, Smarter Every Day)
Herein Housed (or, Some Folks Within These Prints)
In a Poem
Introducing Mr. Ed Deform
Inviolable
Like Ferdinand (or, Taurus Moon)
Love Song
Man of Straw
More Time (Litany on a Common Desire)
My Five Dreams (or, All You Have to Do Is Knock)
My Horoscope (or, Baser Quartz)
My Natal Chart
My Twelve Houses
No McNuggets! (or, Gnomic Nuggets)
North Node in Gemini
Ode to Texting
Our Buoyant Earth (or, Everyman's Sestina)
Our Daily Bread
Our Pleasure
Prayer to Honolulu
Precious Schlock (In memoriam Lou Reed)
Race to the Top (or, A Nation Still at Risk)
Sabbath (or, The Sanctity of Rest)
Sated Hands
Shiny Happy Flyers*
So They Say
Stranger Strands (In memoriam Gabriel Garcia Márquez)
Sub specie aeternitatis (or, Quite Provisional)
Taiwan Dzei Dzou ("Made in Taiwan")
Teaching the Standards
The Ascent of Man (or, A Bone to Pick)
The Basement Tapes
The Bladder of Rhyme
The Data Child
The Doors (In Memoriam Ray Manzarek)
The Emerald Gong
The Final Words of Tsunesaburo Makiguchi
The Middle Way
The Next Few Pages
The Pathless Land
The Prince of Spots
The Songs That Molly Used to Sing
The Ten Worlds of Nichiren Daishonin (or, Claiming Our Buddhahood)
The Tower of Song
There's No THERE There
Tropes
Vanity and Chrome
Walk On!
Welcome to the Desert of the Real
The Buddha's Five Remembrances
Adorning Our Days
To Each His Koan
Token Lines
Form and Fire (Haas at Fifty)
The Wild Toccata
Along the Cosmic Path (or, Beethoven's Final String Quartet)
Calliope
What It Meant
To My Friend
Splendiferous Machines
Oblique Strategies (Cantos 1-4)
Obliquity
Giant Steps (or, Always Underway)
Remember Quiet Nights
Why We're Here
Your You of Now
Approaching the Penultimate
Penultimate
In Verse and Dreams
Indigo Traveler
The Man in the Poem (2008)
"Purple Cow" Stanzas (1991)
3 Limericks
A Dozen Pose Proems
A Picture of the Younger Laroon
A Twice-Told Tale
Accordion
Aesop's Lament
Allegro Joculoso
An Earlier Chapter
An Invariable Moon
Angie in the Rain
Anonymous Bosch
Apollo
Art's a Blast!
As Laughter Does
As They Scuff Their Shoes
As You Walk Through Your Play
As You Walk through Your Poem
At Large
At Rehearsal A
At the Grand Hotel
Audio Files
Before Breaking the Bread
Blooming and Withering
Bringing It All Back Home
Brothers' Drinking Song
Chronicling the Tyranny of Pooh
Dedication
Diaspora
Eager in the Wing
Eight Rilkean Poems
Elderly Woman with Bound Feet
Epigraph: The Mover
Etude of Immanence
Everyman's Spring
Exodus 31:19-27
Fifty Links
Fishtails
Fleeing Bethlehem
For Jay
For Jeff and Joanne
For Stella Penelope
Foucault Transcription
From Ibeza to the Norfolk Broads
From Jaw to Jaw
From Rung to Rung
G-Day in the Americas
Galapagos
Getting There
Gong Xi Fa Cai
Gooing Up My Teas
Haiku
Heading down the Hill from Northhead
High in May
History as a Life to the Given Life
History as a Moveable Bead on a Timeline
History as a Spore
How the Giants Were Born
Hu and Shu in the Kingdom of Chaos
If I Ran the Show
In Murky Flats
In the Kingdom of Montaigne
In the Year of the Expanding Man
Intervention: It Matters Little Who You Are
Into the Breach
It Must Be Taught
Judy's Jungle
Kilroy Was Here
Language's Brass Spittoon
Left with the Helves
Legal Tinder
Letter to Heather
Leviticus
Lexicography
Lullaby
Making the Poem
Molly's Song
Monadology I
Monadology II
Monadology III
Monadology IV
My Friend Freda
My Likenesses
My Nativity
My Sobriquet
Neal Cassady
Nietzsche Transcription
Nothing Was Spoken
O reine Übersteigung!
Or So It Seemed
Our Mozart
Pierre Bezallion
Pierrot Lunaire
Poem for Bob Dylan
Poor Pindar
The Channeled Way
Poor Pindar, Again
Pope Gregory and the Visitation
Prayer in Autumn
Prelude in A Minor
Robert Hunter
Rock of Ages
Schoenberg's Second String Quartet
Sigh (for Wu Bai)
Singapore
Somewhere down the Road
Spring City, PA
Stanzas
Stepping Out
Ten Weeks
That Other Place
The Abandoned Shell
The Big Squint
The Book of Life
The Buzzing of the Bee
The Case against the Rightful Heir
The Central Dais
The Charter of the Realm
The Cicada and the Phong
The Company Agent
The Crucial Point
The Death of Confucius
The Dream of the Butterfly
The Dream of the Grand Assumption
The Dual Ends
The Era of Common Fun
The Fifth Marx
The Germinatrix
The Lettered Melee
The Lost Fragments of Hippo and Melissus
The Lost Theatre of Quiverbow at Nova
The Man in the Poem
The Mark That Matter Most
The Marks That Matter Most
The Merman and Mr. Jones
The Millenarian Abecedarian
The Myth of the Final Face
The Name
The Naming of Cats
The Next Man on the Dump
The Passionate Repeats
The People on the Train
The Poem at the Foxhole Inn
The Pretzel
The Realm of the Blessed
The Republic of a Thousand Years
The Season's Braille
The Shadow and the Penumbra
The Story of Civilization
The Strategist of a Secret
My Rod and My Staff and My Other I
The Taskmaster
The Third Nature
The Tortoise and the Hare
The Trenchant Word
The Truest Poem
The Untimely Baron
The Whiteness of Bone
The Window and the Faces in the Rain
The World's Second Funniest Joke
Their Greatest Gifts
This Walled Aporia
Three Poems
Three Poems Plus One
June 28, 1914
Three Verse Essays
Through the Longuers
To Where the Others Fled
Too Early on Their Mission
Trinkets and Runnels
Two Poems for Voo
Upon a Plotted Terrain
Waiting for Wings
Wallace Stevens
Walt Whitman
What Beckmesser Said to the Prospective Sharer
What the Owl of Death Said
When the Lights Are Out
On Your Way into Sleep
Where the Fun Is
While We Were Sleeping
Williams and All
Writing Regina's Sestina
You and I, By and By
You're It!
Your Timeless Riff
The Stage with No True North
[Cast of Characters]
Act Five
Act Four
Act One
Act Three
Act Two
Title and Dedication
And Dragons in the Crease
Two Non-sonnets for Gretchen
Our Spinning Feast
Nobody Again but Me
Poem for My Wife, in Anticipation of an Empty Nest
The Palindromic Means and Ends of Sleep
The Ugliest American
Alternative Facts
Equity
Douglass Speaks
Individual One
The Weight, 2020
The Dark Star of Gilchrist Haas
Frickin' Freight
Kicking an Old Tin Can
Sestina of Myself
Stop Breaking Down
Accessing the Real (or, Dazzling Chrome)
The Age of Prose
I'll Buy a Drone to Fly Inside My Head
Sarabande
Shadow Life (or, Like Fey Bo Peep)
The Song in My Head
Material
Furlongs Thick and Fathoms Deep
Forked Lightning (Ten New Villanelles)
Villanellian Epithalamion
Human Minute
The Appointment
Tongue Gone Numb
Fixed Fire (or, My Leonine Tao)
Something Else (or, Our Samenesses)
Some Sentences
No Concession
Conjecturing Post-Odyssey
Our Spinning Feast
To My Wife
Some Things That Sleep Should Not Be Interrupted By
Some Other Things That Sleep Might (or Mightn't) Interrupt
; [semi-colon]
My Next Poem
Piano Videos of Andy Jones
Master Index of Poems
And Dragons in the Crease
Forthcoming (summer 2024).
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