sitting with the professors we talk about Allen Tate and John Crow Ransom the rugs are clean and the coffeetables shine

here I am in the ground my mouth open and

she was sitting in the window of room 1010 at the Chelsea in New York, Janis Joplin’s old room. it was 104 degrees

We were eating meatballs and spaghetti. My problems were always discussed at dinner time. Dinner time was almost always an unhappy time. I didn’t answer my father’s question. “Henry, an...

I always wanted to ball Henry Miller, she said, but by the time I got there it was too late. damn it, I said, you girls

To pacify Lydia I agreed to go to Muleshead, Utah. Her sister was camping in the mountains. The sisters actually owned much of the land. It had been inherited from their father. Glendol...

it was up in San Francisco after my poetry reading. it had been a nice crowd I had gotten my money I had this place upstairs

a woman told a man when he got off a plane that I was dead. a magazine printed the fact that I was dead

I went up to Tammie’s place with my cardboard cartons. First I got the items she mentioned. Then I found other things—other dresses and blouses, shoes, an iron, a hair dryer, Dancy’s cl...

I’m big I suppose that’s why my women alwa… small but this 6 foot goddess who deals in real estate

After dinner or lunch or whatever it was—with my crazy 12 hour night I was no longer sure what was what—I said, "Look, baby, I’m sorry, but don’t you realize that this job is driving me...

more wasted days, gored days, evaporated days. more squandered days, days pissed away,

The war was going very well in Europe, for Hitler. Most of the students weren’t very vocal on the matter. But the instructors were, they were almost all left-wing and anti-German. There...

in the Valkerie Mountains among the strutting peacocks I found a flower as large as my head