Compositions

Publications

1920

1920

“Dawn After Storm,” Varsity (Nov.).

“Monody,” The Morningside 9.2 (Nov.): 38.

“Youth,” The Morningside 9.3 (Dec.): 99.

1921

1921

“Walking Down the White Sand Street of Kamakura,“ The Morningside 9.4 (Jan.).

“Undulations,” The Morningside 9.5 (Feb.).

“Sea-Nymph’s Prayer to Okeanos,” Varsity (Feb.): 8.

“Dark Room,” “Silver Moment,” Varsity (March): 19.

“The Faun Sees,” The Morningside 9.7 (April): 239; Pagan (Aug.-Sept.).

“Mood,” Pagan (Oct.-Nov.).

“Earth Counts a Day” [a play], The Morningside 10.1 (Nov.): 1-8.

“Louis XIV Chamber”; “The Mystic Song,” The Morningside 10.2 (Dec.): 42.

1922

Vast, tremulous [I Sent Thee Late]

1922

“Autumn Sunrise,” The Morningside 10.3 (Feb.): 157.

“Sun and Rainbow,” The Morningside 10.4 (March).

“Autumn Sunrise”; “Moments”; “Spare Us of Dying Beauty”; “Louis XIV Chamber”; “The Mystic Song,” The Morningside 10.5-6 (April-May).

“Autumn Sunrise,” The Philadelphia Public Ledger (7 Oct.).

“An Immortality,” The Morningside 11.1 (Nov.): 10.

1923

The movement of clouds have not a mind’s precision (3 May) [DP]

A Parable of Time (Summer?)

No sound, but sun (16 Aug.)

What shall I do for money, my friend (17 Sept.) [DP]

Their shapely throats breathe as of song (22 Nov.) [DP]

tam cari capitis (27 Nov.) [29P 24]

Would what oppresses a night (23 Dec.) [DP]

Seeing, the eyes [DP]

1923

“An Immortality,” The Forum 69.2 (Feb.).

“The Earth”; “Glamour” Rhythmus 1.3 (March).

“Youth’s Ballad of Singleness”; “Vision”; “Reflections,” The Morningside 12.3-4 (March-April): 47-48.

“Louis XIV Chamber,” Voices 2.5 (Aug.-Sept.).

1924

Not much more than being (24 Jan.) [29P 2]

Millennium of sun– (22 Feb.) [29P 12]

Henry Adams: A Criticism in Autobiography (original version 7 May)

The people change and the birds in the air (25 May) [DP]

Tall and singularly dark you pass among the breakers– (6 July) [29P 18]

All the stars have filled the heavens (6 July)

It is well on this June night (7 July)

Always the May-day sun (17 Aug.)

September among the headstones (21 Sept.)

Cars once steel and green, now old (29 Dec.) [29P 17]

1924

“Of Dying Beauty,” Poetry 23.4 (Jan.): 197.

“The Seer”, “Sun and Rainbow,” “Louis XIV Chamber.” Columbia Verse: An Anthology of Verse Published in Undergraduate Magazines of Columbia University from 1897-1924, ed. Cargill Sprietsma (NY: Columbia UP).

1925

Ferry (16 Jan.) [29P 5]

Comes a day when the round tracts of sky (18 Feb.)

Passing tall (12 April) [29P 10]

And looking to where shone Orion (28 April) [29P 15]

And they rest: the manifold light rays— (15-16 June) [DP]

Memory of V.I. Ulianov (3 Aug.) [29P 1]

Play lost, banjos! Across the areas of ocean’s flowing (23 Aug.)

The sun—sign on the wave (6 Sept.)

Aubade, 1925 (24 Sept.) [29P 16]

(The Sadness After) (Fall)

Run on, you still dead to the sound of a name (15 Oct.) [29P 19]

Across the smoke, over all past living (17 Oct.)

And about these lights, they are  the lights (8 Nov.)

Close your eyes (21 Dec.) [29P 20]

O sleep, the sky goes down behind the poplars (21 Dec.) [29P 21]

1925

“A Parable of Time,” Two Worlds 1.1 (Sept.): 56.

“The Sadness After,” Two Worlds 1.2 (Dec.): 126.

1926

Like the oceans, or the leaves of fine Southern (Jan.) [29P 25]

We are crossing the bridge now (10 Jan.) [29P 13]

And the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders (27 Jan)

During the Passaic Strike of 1926 (18 April) [29P 7]

Stubbing the cloud-fields—the searchlight, high (3 May) [29P 11]

(I Wait for the Train) (10 May)

(For a Thing by Bach) (14 June)

How many / Times round (19 July) [29P 6]

Only water– (30 Aug.) [29P 14]

A Preface (dated 17 Oct.) [for unpublished sequence “18 Poems to the Future”]

Poem beginning “The” [55 Poems]

1926

“February 18, 1925,” The Lavender 3.6 (Jan.).

1927

Song Theme (26 Jan.) [29P 23]

(Spinoza in a Winter Season) (26 Jan.)

What are these smoke-stacks (26 Jan.)

My watch (7 March)

“He Came Also Still” (9 March)

The silence of the good that you were wrought of (10 March)

O lowering belts (14 March)

Someone said, “earth, bowed with her head, we mourn” (15 March)

During lunch hour I shall stretch opposite (15 March)

And human heat-beats; star-falling, engine-beats (8 April)

Critique of Antheil (April)

A dying away as of trees (19 April) [29P 9]

(Awake) / Propped on the earth (28 April)

(These States 1927) [Preface 1927] (dated 11 July)

Autumn, then autumn—what of it (13 Sept.)

N.Y. 1927 (13 Sept.)

Mr. Cummings and the Delectable Mountains (Review of E.E. Cumming’s Him) [“Him” in Prep]

1927

1928

Cactus rose-mauve and gray, twin overturned (29 Jan.) [29P 22]

Postscript to Henry Adams: A Criticism in Autobiography (21 April) [Prep]

Ask of the sun (2 June) [29P 26]

Finer was the dead artist’s hand (2 June)

Cocktails (7 June) [29P 3]

Beginning Again with William Carlos Williams (postscript to Henry Adams) (9 Oct.) [Prep]

“A”-1

“A”-2 (10 Oct.)

“A”-3

“A”-7 (begun 10 Oct.)

And to paradise which is a port (29 Oct.) [29P 8]

O autumn fields, if we should break, beyond (31 Oct.)

Blue light is the night harbor-slip (1 Nov.) [29P 27]

Buoy—no, how (1 Nov.) [29P 4]

1928

“Poem beginning ‘The,’” The Exile 3 (Spring): 7-27.

“Mr. Cummings and the Delectable Mountains”; “Preface—1927”; “Critique of Antheil”; “Constellation: In Memory of V.I. Ulianov”; “A Preface,” The Exile 4 (Autumn): 75-88.

“tam cari capitis”; “Song Theme”; “Someone said, ‘earth’”; “The silence of the good,” The Dial 85.6 (Dec.): 458-459.

1929

Two Dedications: D.R. (2 Feb.) [29P 29]

Two Dedications: Tibor Serly (5 Feb.) [29P 28]

“A”-4 (11 July)

Henry Adams: A Criticism in Autobiography (Hound & Horn version 14 Aug.)

Ezra Pound: His Cantos (original version 10 Aug.) [Prep]

“A”-5 (9 Sept.) [Prep]

1929

“No sound. But Sun”; “Millennium of sun—,” Blues 1.1 (Feb.): 19.

“Cocktails and signs of ‘ads,’” Transition 15 (Feb): 125.

“Across the smoke, over all past living”; “’And the strong men shall bow themselves’”; “And about these lights (East Rockaway, L.I.),” Blues 1.2 (March): 43-44.

“(Spinoza in a Winter Season)”; “September among the headstones,” The Criterion 8.32 (April): 420-421.

“Autumn, then autumn, what of it?”; “Finer was the dead artist’s hand”; “And to paradise which is a port”; “O autumn fields, if we should break” Blues 1.4 (May): 93-94.

“Siren and Signal” [sequence including “’He came also still’”; “All the stars have filled the heavens”; “Play lost banjos”; “North River Ferry” [Ferry]; “Cars once steel and green”; “Comes a day when the round tracts of sky”; “During lunch hour”], Poetry 34.3 (June): 146-149.

1930

Sincerity and Objectification I-V (4 Feb.) [Prep]

Words by William Carlos Williams Re-Written by LZ (16 Feb.) [included in An “Objectivist” Anthology]

American Poetry 1920-1930 (2 June) [Prep]

“A”-6 (12-16 Aug.)

“A”-7 (completed, Aug.)

Ezra Pound XXX Cantos (7 Sept.)

Imagisme (Review of René Taupin’s L’Influence de Symbolisme sur la Poésie Américaine de 1920 à 1920) [one paragraph as “Influence” in Prep]

Poetic Values [Prep]

1930

Translation of Anton Reiser’s Albert Einstein. NY: A. & C. Boni [LZ requested his name not appear].

“Cactus, rose-mauve and gray,” Pagany 1.1 (Jan.-March): 79.

Four Poems (1926-1927) [“My watch! / Star-darkness”; “A dying away as of trees”; “And human heart-beats”; “(I wait for the train),” Blues 8 (Spring): 14-15.

Three Poems (1924-1926) [“It is well in this June night”; “And looking to where shone Orion”; “Only water,” Pagany 1.2 (April-June): 21-22.

“Henry Adams: A Criticism in Autobiography—part I,” Hound & Horn 3.3 (April-June): 333-357.

“Ezra Pound: Ses Cantos,” Échanges 1.3 (June): 145-172.

“Henry Adams: A Criticism in Autobiography—part II,” Hound & Horn 3.4 (July-Sept.): 518-530.

Group from Ten Poems (1924-26) [I: “Not much more than being”; III: “Always the May-day sun”; VI: “The sun— / sign on the wave”; “Tibor Serly (from Two Dedications),” Blues 9 (Fall): 40-43.

“For a Thing by Bach,” Pagany 1.4 (Oct.-Dec.): 23.

“Henry Adams: A Criticism in Autobiography—part III,” Hound & Horn 4.1 (Oct.-Dec.): 46-72.

“Ask of the Sun,” Front 1.1 (Dec.): 31.

“Dedication—D.R.,” Morada 5 (Dec.).

1931

Program “Objectivists” 1931 [Prep]

Review of Basil Bunting, Redimiculum Matellarum (Feb.)

Madison, Wis., remembering the bloom of Monticello (1 March) [29S 1]

Prop. LXI (16 April) [29S 3]

Train-Signal (26 May) [29 S 4]

Happier, happier, now (30 Nov.) [29S 8]

“Recencies” in Poetry (dated 19 Aug.) [Prep]

—“her soil’s birth” (22 Aug.) [29S 6]

The Gathering (Nov.) [trans. from Apollinaire] [DP]

Immature Pebbles [29S 2]

1931

“American Poetry 1920-1930,” The Symposium 2.1 (Jan.): 60-84.

“A” (Seventh Movement); “Program: ‘Objectivists’ 1931”; “Sincerity and Objectification” I, II, III; Note to Symposium by Parker Tyler and Charles Henri Ford; Translation of René Taupin, “Three Poems by André Salmon”—I, Poetry 37.5 (Feb.): 242-246, 268-285, 287-288, 289-293 [“Objectivists” issue].

“Aubade 1925”; “Beginning again with William Carlos Williams” (Postscript to “Henry Adams”), Hound & Horn 4.2 (Jan.-March): 229-230, 261-264.

Four Poems (1924-1928) [“Buoy—no, how”; “(Awake!) / Propped on the earth”; “Tall and singularly dark you pass among the breakers—”; “Passing tall,” Pagany 2.1 (Jan.-March): 89-90.

Translation of René Taupin, “Three Poems by André Salmon”—II, Poetry 37.6 (March): 333-339.

“The February Number” (reply to Stanley Burnshaw), Poetry 38.1 (April): 55-57 [with Burnshaw’s letter responding to the “Objectivists” issue].

“The Cantos of Ezra Pound (one section of a long essay),” The Criterion 10.40 (April): 424-440.

“What are these smoke-stakes”; ”O lowering belts,” Left 1.1 (Spring): 40.

“N.Y. 1927”; Review of R. Hillyer, The Gates of the Compass, L. Speyer, Naked Heel & K.T. Young, Ten Poems, Nativity 2 (Spring).

“Blue light,” Pagany 2.2 (April-June): 79.

“A”-3 & 4; “Imagism” (review of René Taupin, Poésie Américaine), The New Review 2 (May-June-July): 83-88, 160-161.

“’London or Troy?’ ‘Adest’” (review of Basil Bunting, Redimiculum Matellarum), Poetry 38.3 (June): 160-162.

“Ezra Pound’s XXX Cantos,” Front 4 (June): 364-367.

 “Completely and accurately” (review of The Poems of Wilfred Owen), The N.Y. Sun (10 Oct.): 13.

“(Train-Signal),” Pagany 2.4 (Oct.-Dec.): 80.

1932

Who endure days like this (9 April) [29S 7]

The Writing of Guillaume Apollinaire (completed 19 April)

In Arizona (28 April) [29S 9]

Arizona (29 April) [29S 10]

The water lifted me (with Jerry Reisman & George Oppen) (10 May) [DP]

It’s a gay li – ife (26 May) [29S 5]

Song 11: And the least see (27 May) [DP]

After “Les Collines” (with Jerry Reisman) (27 May) [An “Objectivists” Anthology]

Whatever makes this happening (20 June) [29S 12]

in that this happening (22 June) [29S 13]

Thanks to the Dictionary (begun July)

The sand: For the cigarette finished (3 Aug.) [29S 14]

Do not leave me (15 Aug.) [29S 15]

Crickets’ / thickets (15 Aug.) [29S 16]

Imitation (10 Nov.) [29S 17]

The mirror oval sabers playing (28 Nov.) [29S 18]

No One Inn (1 Dec.) [29S 25]

Ears beringed with fuzz (5 Dec.) [29S 20]

Snows’ night’s winds on the window rattling (13 Dec.) [29S 21]

To my wash-stand (13 Dec.) [29S 22]

1932

An “Objectivists” Anthology, ed. LZ. Le Beausset, France and NY: To Publ. [includes “Preface: ’Recencies’ in Poetry,” “A” 1-7, “—Her Soil’s Birth,” “Prop. LXI,” “Madison, Wis., Remembering the Bloom of Monticello (1931),” “Program: ‘Objectivists’ 1931,” collaborations with Kenneth Rexroth, Jerry Reisman, R.B.N. Warriston and WCW].

Translation of René Taupin, “The Classicism of T.S. Eliot,” The Symposium 3.1 (Jan.): 64-82.

“(Ferry)”; “Madison, Wis., Remembering the bloom of Monticello (1931),” Contact 1.1 (Feb.): 40-42.

“It’s a gay li – ife,” Contempo 1.21 (1 April): 2.

“A” (Second Movement), Poetry 40.1 (April): 26-29.

“Run on, you still dead to the sound”; “Poem—1925,” Fifth Floor Window 1.4 (May).

“The Transition” (review of Wyndham Lewis, The Doom of Youth), The Saturday Review of Literature (30 July): 18.

“A” (First Movement), Pagany 3.3 (July-Sept.): 9-13.

“in that this happening” (with Latin translation by Basil Bunting), Il Mare (1 Oct.).

“Physiology and a Poem” [unsigned], The Lion & Crown 1.1 (Fall).

“Song 9” (In Arizona); “Song 10” (“arch animals’” [Arizona]), Contact 1.3 (Oct.): 75-76.

“‘The’ 2-5” [“Poem beginning ‘The,’” sections 2-5]. Profile: An Anthology, ed. EP (Milan: John Scheiwiller).

1933

N.Y. (24 Jan.) [29S 29]

A Further Note on XXX Cantos of Ezra Pound (23 Feb.)

A Junction (7 Aug.) [29S 26]

This Fall, 1933 (12 Nov.) [29S 24]

Home for Aged Bomb Throwers—U.S.S.R. (11-22 Nov.) [29S 11]

Checkers, checkmate and checkerboard (29 Nov.) [29S 19]

Song—¾ time (8 Dec.) [29S 27]

1933

“Imitation / N.Y. 1932”; “Song 22,” The Symposium 4.2 (April): 178-181.

“Objectivists Again,” Poetry 42.2 (May): 117 [letter to the editor replying to Morris U. Schappes’ review of An “Objectivists” Anthology in Poetry 41.6 (March 1933) with brief response by Schappes 117-118].

“A Further Note on XXX Cantos by Ezra Pound,” The Windsor Quarterly 1.1 (Spring): 88-94.

“mirror fugue to ‘The Gnat’ by Carl Rakosi,” The Windsor Quarterly 1.2 (Summer): 138-139.

“Song 29,” Poetry 42.6 (Sept.): 312.

“The Writing of Guillaume Apollinaire: Le Flâneur, (I)—Il y a” (with René Taupin), The Westminster Magazine 22.4 (Winter): 9-50.

“‘The’” [Poem beginning “The”], “A” 5-7. Active Anthology, ed. EP (London: Faber & Faber).

1934

“Specifically, a writer of music” (24 Feb.) [29S 28]

“The Immediate Aim” (7 March) [29S 23]

Sequence from “The Writing of Guillaume Apollinaire” (1 April) [includes “The Gathering”]

Alba [Alba, 1952] (original version 1 May)

“Mantis” (27 Oct.) [55 Poems]

“Mantis,” An Interpretation (dated 4 Nov.) [55 Poems]

1934

Le Style Apollinaire, trans. René Taupin. Paris: Les Presses Modernes.

“Ezra Pound: His Cantos, parts I & II,” The Observer 2.2 (Jan.-Feb.).

“The Writing of Guillaume Apollinaire: (II)—Le Poète Ressuscité, (III)—& Cie” (with René Taupin), The Westminster Magazine 23.1 (Spring): 7-46.

“Sequence from ‘The Writing of Guillaume Apollinaire,’” The Columbia Review (May).

“How many / times round / deck,” Negro Anthology of 1931-1933, ed. Nancy Cunard (London: Lawrence N. Wishart).

“Tibor Serly,” “Madison, Wis., Remembering the Bloom of Monticello (1931).” Modern Things, ed. Parker Tyler (NY: The Galleon Press).

1935

“Further than”— (20 Jan.) [55 Poems]

A madrigal for 3 voices (27-28 Feb.) [Anew 27]

“A”-8 (begun 5 Aug.)

A Test of Poetry (begun)

Review of Lewis Carroll’s Russian Journal and Other Works [“Lewis Carroll” in Prep]

1935

“‘Mantis,’” Poetry 45.6 (March): 320-321.

“Home for Aged Bomb Throwers”; “American Bank-Note Factory”; “A Junction”; “Song ¾ time,” Bozart-Westminster 24.1 (Spring-Summer).

“Review of Lewis Carroll’s Russian Journal,” The New Masses (8 Oct.): 24.

1936

Arise, Arise (original version 27 Jan.; revised 27 June)

Modern Times (18 March) [Prep]

A Test of Poetry (cont.)

1936

“‘Mantis’”; ”‘Mantis,’ an Interpretation.” New Directions in Prose and Poetry, ed. James Laughlin IV (Norfolk, CT: New Directions): 167-175.

1937

Motet (15 Jan.) [I’s]

che di lor suona su nella tua vita (4 Feb.) [Anew 1]

One lutenist played look (2 March) [Anew 2]

“A”-8 (revised and completed 14 July)

The green plant grows (2 Dec.) [Anew 3]

1937

“The Labor Process (from “A”-8),” The New Masses 24.5 (27 July): 16.

“Trio of Workers” [Madrigal for 3 voices]. Contemporary American Men Poets, ed. Thomas Del Vecchio (NY: Henry Harrison).

“Aubade, 1925,” “How many,” “Bloom of Monticello,” “Memory of V.I. Ulianov,” “And looking to where shone Orion,” “Train signal.” Poetry Out of Wisconsin, ed. August Dereth & Raymond Larsson (NY: Henry Harrison).

1938

So sounds grass, and if it is sun or no sun (27-28 Feb.) [Anew 4]

Ah spring, when with a thaw of blue (2 March) [Anew 5]

Anew, sun, to fire summer (1-4 Aug.) [Anew 6]

“A”-9, first half (begun, 9 Aug.)

“Aids” and restatement for The First Half of “A”-9 (begun, 9-21 Aug.)

American Ironwork 1585-1856 (27 Aug.) [Useful Art]

When the crickets (28 Aug.) [Anew 7]

Chalkware (26 Sept.) [Useful Art]

Glad they were there (22 Nov.) [Anew 29]

Has the sum (5 Dec.) [Anew 8]

For you I have emptied the meaning (6 Dec.) [Anew 9]

What are these songs (6 Dec.) [Anew 10]

A Test of Poetry (cont.)

1938

“March Comrades (from “A”-8),” The New Masses 27.6 (3 May): 14.

“A”-8. New Directions 1938, ed. James Laughlin (Norfolk, CT: New Directions): 93-149.

“’The’ (third movement)” [from “Poem beginning ‘The’”]. Biographical Dictionary of Contemporary Poets (NY: Avon House).

1939

American Tinware (9 Jan.) [Useful Art]

The rains, the rains (7 March) [Anew 28]

The lines of this new song are nothing (7 March) [Anew 20]

American Kitchenware (3 April) [Useful Art]

A last cigarette (15 May) [Anew 13]

Preface to Sincerity and Objectification (22 June?) [unpublished selection of criticism]

Thanks to the Dictionary (final arrangement 16 Aug.)

Gulls over a rotting hull (1-3 Sept.) [Anew 23]

Henry Adams (revised)

Drive, fast kisses (12-13 Oct.) [Anew 33]

My nephew (20-21 Oct.) [Anew 31]

The men in the kitchens (28 Oct.) [Anew 24]

Catullus viii (Nov.?) [Anew 22]

A Pair of New York Water Pitchers (7 Nov.) [Useful Art]

The Henry Clay Figurehead (16 Nov.) [Useful Art]

American Tinsmiths (21 Nov.) [Useful Art]

Binnacle Figure—1851 (18 Dec.) [Useful Art]

“Wide Awake” Lantern and Eagle (29 Dec.) [Useful Art]

A Test of Poetry (cont.)

1939

1940