Overtime: Selected Poems: (Penguin Poets)

Table of Contents:
OvertimeIntroduction /The Road-Runner Homage to Lucretius "Plus Ça Change . . ." If You're So Smart, Why Ain't You Rich? The Slop Barrel: Slices of the Paideuma for All Sentient Beings Sourdough Mountain Lookout Further Notice Soufflé Literary Life in the Golden West 10:x:57, 45 Years Since the Fall of the Ch'ing Dynasty For My Father Metaphysical Insomnia Jazz. Mumonkan xxix. O:vii:58, On Which I Renounce the Notion of Social Responsibility Hymnus Ad Patrem Sinensis Complaint: To the Muse Prose Take-Out, Portland, 13:ix:58 Self-Portrait Sad, 22:ix:58 Something Nice About Myself Take, 25:iii:59 A Distraction Fit Haiku for Mike Address to the Boobus, with her Hieratic Formulas in Reply Boobus Hierophante, Her Incantations To the Moon Song for 2 Balalaikas on the Corner of 3rd & Market Since You Ask Me To a Poet An Irregular Ode Haiku, for Gary Snyder A Vision of the Bodhisattvas Dream Historical Disquisitions Dream & Excursus, Arlington Massachusetts For Albert Saijo Homage to Rodin The Daydream That One Vector Analysis One of My Favorite Songs Is Stormy Weather Friendship Greetings Early Autumn in Upper Noe Valley The Chariot Song to Begin Rohatsu Spring Musick For Brother Antoninus Life and Death and a Letter to My Mother Beyond Them Both Plums, Metaphysics, an Investigation, a Visit, and a Short Funeral Ode Three Mornings Raging Desire &c. The Fourth of October, 1963 Inside Stuff Native Speech Compostition The Lotus Sutra, Naturalized Early Spring The Metaphysical Town Hall and Bookshop The Ode to Music Goddess True Confessions The Preface Bleakness, Farewell Homage to William Seward Burroughs Dear Mr President Japanese Tea Garden Golden Gate Park in Spring "A Penny for the Old Guy" Mahayana Love Love Love Again April Showers Bring Rain? A Morning Walk "The Sun Rises and Sets in That Child," so my grandmother used to say, "California Is Odious but Indispensible" Imagination of the Taj Mahal T/O That Eyes! Those Nose! M The Life of Literature America! Giant Sequoias L'Enfant Prodigue Good News and Gospel Palimpsest Labor Day Sad Song Lemon Trees EAMD Walking 3 Days Ago 5th Position Ginkakuji Michi Sanjusangendo Crowded White River Ode A Revolution The War Poem for Diane di Prima The Garden Confession and Penance The Grand Design Success Is Failure The Winter The Winter for Burton Watson "NEFAS" All of it went on the wrong page The Dharma Youth League Failing A Romantic & Beautiful Poem Inspired by the Recollection of William Butler Yeats, His Life & Work International Date Line, Monday / Monday 27:XI:67 America Inside & Outside Bill Brown's House in Bolinas Life in the City. In Memoriam Edward Gibbon Allegorical Painting: Capitalistic Society Destroyed by the Contradictions Within Itself. (Second Five-Year Plan.) To the Revolutionary Cadres of Balboa, Malibu & Santa Barbara Duerden's Garage, Stinson Beach Walking Beside the Kamogawa, Remembering Nansen and Fudo and Gary's Poem Behind the Door Life at Bolinas. The Last of California Birthday Poem Excerpts from"Scenes of Life at the Capital" Many Colored Squares "Up in Michigan" "Old Age Echoes" The Letter to Thomas Clark 22:VII:71 from Bolinas where He Sat beside Me to Help to Write It "Horrible Incredible Lies": Keith Lampe Spontaneously Imaginary Splendors Public Opinions Monument Rescue Dim The Turn Look Look Look "I Told Myself": Bobbie Spontaneously Growing and Changing October First Occasional Dilemmas Ode for You Alleyway In the Night "Stolen and Abandoned" Tassajara The Universal & Susquehanna Mercy Co. Dayton, O. Message High-tension on Low-pressure Non-accomplishment Blues Mask Detachment, Wisdom and Compassion Money Is the Roost of All Eagles "The Conditions That Prevail" The Talking Picture Dream Poems Murals Not Yet Dreamed The Vision of Delight Luxury in August How to Be Successful & Happy Without Anybody Else Finding Out About It Compulsive Obligatory Paranoia Flashes For Clark Coolidge The Radio Again Somebody Else's Problem Bothers Me Bead Defective Circles Obsolete Models Many Pages Must Be Thrown Away The Congress of Vienna To the Memory Of "Past Ruin'd Ilion" Tears and Recriminations Discriminations Homage to St. Patrick, Garc&ía Lorca, & the Itinerant Grocer What About It? Treading More Water Treading Water What? Writing in the Dining Room? What's New? Violins in Chaos? The Bay Trees Were About to Bloom Dying Tooth Song Rich Interior, After Thomas Mann Chanson d'Outre Tombe Hot Springs Infernal in the Human Beast Homage to Hart Crane What Are You Studying, These Days? Dharmakaya Some of These Days Epigrams & Imitations For Allen, on His 60th Birthday Bibliography

About the Author :
Philip Whalen spent fifteen years of formal Zen training in Santa Fe and San Francisco. He is currently the Abbot of Hartford Street Zen Center in San Francisco.

Review :
"In Philip Whalen's poetry, offhand compositional elegance and the deep amusement of wisdom combine to produce one of the pure delights of contemporary literature." —Ron Padgett"Philip Whalen is a great poet; I get as much wisdom and affection from his work as from that of any poet whosoever, dead or alive, having lived whenever. The range, the space, the humor are all considerable, kingdoms of cloud mind unscrolling into the most concrete of details. This is a very large spirit." —Alice Notley