Published but Uncollected Poems

 

The following comes almost entirely from CZ’s Bibliography (1969). These have not yet been checked whether they include earlier versions or re-titled poems included in CSP.

 

Of LZ’s early publishing venues, Varsity was the Columbia University undergraduate magazine, while The Morningside was a student literary journal.

 

“Dawn After Storm.” Varsity (Nov. 1920).

“Monody.” The Morningside 9.2 (Nov. 1920): 38.

“Youth.” The Morningside 9.3 (Dec. 1920): 99. Rpt. Ahearn (1983): 13.

“Walking down the White Sand Streets of Kamakura.” The Morningside 9.4 (Jan. 1921).

“Undulations.” The Morningside 9.5 (Feb. 1921): 152. Rpt. Ahearn (1983): 13.

“Sea-Nymph’s Prayer to Okeanos.” Varsity (Feb. 1921): 8.

“Dark Room.” Varsity (March 1921): 19.

“The Faun Sees.” The Morningside 9.7 (April 1921): 239; Rpt. Pagan (Aug.-Sept. 1921).

“Mood.” Pagan (Oct.-Nov. 1921).

“Earth Counts a Day: A Fantasy” [play]. The Morningside 10.1 (Nov. 1921): 1-8.

“Louis XIV Chamber,” “The Mystic Song.” The Morningside 10.2 (Dec. 1921): 42; Rpt. The Morningside 10.5-6 (April-May 1922): 158-159. “Louis XIV Chamber” rpt. Voices 2.5 (Aug.-Sept.1923); Columbia Verse 1897-1924, ed. Cargill Sprietsma (NY: Columbia UP, 1924).

“Autumn Sunrise.” The Morningside 10.3 (Feb. 1922): 157. Rpt. The Morningside 10.5-6 (April-May 1922).

“Sun and Rainbow.” The Morningside 10.4 (March 1922): 103. Rpt. The Morningside 10.5-6 (April-May 1922); The Philadelphia Public Ledger (7 Oct. 1922); Columbia Verse 1897-1924, ed. Cargill Sprietsma (NY: Columbia UP, 1924).

“Moments,” “Spare Us of Dying Beauty.” The Morningside 10.5-6 (April-May 1922): 157-158. The latter rpt. as “Of Dying Beauty,” Poetry 23.4 (Jan. 1924): 197. “Moments” rpt. Scroggins Bio 34.

“An Immortality.” The Morningside 11.1 (Nov. 1922): 10. Rpt. The Forum 69.2 (Feb. 1923).

“The Earth,” “Glamour.” Rhythmus 1.3 (March 1923).

“Youth’s Ballad of Singleness,” “Vision,” “Reflections.” The Morningside 12.3-4 (March-April 1923): 47-50. The former rpt. Ahearn (1983): 14-16.

“The Seer.” Columbia Verse 1897-1924, ed. Cargill Sprietsma (NY: Columbia UP, 1924).

“A Parable of Time.” Two Worlds 1.1 (Sept. 1925): 25.

“The Sadness After.” Two Worlds 1.2 (Dec. 1925): 126.

“February 18, 1925.” The Lavender 3.6 (Jan. 1926).

“Preface 1927,” “Critique of Antheil.” The Exile 4 (Autumn 1928): 78-84.

“Some one said, ‘earth,’” “The silence of the good.” The Dial 85.6 (Dec. 1928): 459. Rpt. A Dial Miscellany (1963): 333.

“No sound. But sun.” Blues 1.1 (Feb. 1929): 19.

“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 1929): 43-44.

“(Spinoza in a Winter Season),” “September among the headstones.” The Criterion 8.32 (April 1929): 420-421.

“Autumn, then autumn—what of it?” “Finer was the dead artist’s hand,” “O autumn fields, if we should break.” Blues 1.4 (May 1929): 93-94.

“He came also still,” “All the stars have filled the heavens,” “Play lost banjos,” “Comes a day,” “During lunch hour.” Poetry 34.3 (June 1929): 146-149.

“My watch! / Star-darknesses,” “And human heart-beats,” “(I wait for the train).” Blues 8 (Spring 1930): 14-15.

“It is well on this June night.” Pagany 1.2 (April-June 1930): 21-22.

“Always the May-day sun,” “The sun—sign on the wave.” Blues 9 (Fall 1930): 40-42.

“For a Thing by Bach.” Pagany 1.4 (Oct.-Dec. 1930): 23.

“(Awake!) / Propped on the earth.” Pagany 2.1 (Jan.-March 1931): 89. Rpt. A Return to Pagany (1969): 254.

“University: Old Time.” [under pseudonym Joyce Hopkins]. Poetry 37.5 (Feb. 1931): 251.

“What are these smoke-stakes,” “O lowering belts.” Left 1.1 (1931): 40.

“N.Y., 1927.” Nativity 2 (Spring 1931): 20. Rpt. WCW/LZ 89-90.

“Poem—1925.” Fifth Floor Window 1.4 (May 1932).

“mirror fugue to ‘The Gnat’ by Carl Rakosi.” The Windsor Quarterly 1.2 (Summer 1933): 138-139 [published following Rakosi’s poem].

“March Comrades (Words for a workers’ chorus from ‘A’-8).” The New Masses 27.6 (3 May 1938) [Incorporated into “A”-8 (1938), but pruned in the final version of “A”-8.48-49].

“A foin lass bodders.” First Half of “A”-9. NY: Privately printed, 1940. 35-36. Rpt. Paideuma 7.3 (Winter 1978): 410-413; New Directions 39 (1979): 164-166; Selected Poems (2006) [translation of Cavalcanti’s canzone into Brooklynese].

 “Julia’s Wild.” From Bottom: on Shakespeare (Austin, TX: The Ark Press, 1963): 393. Rpt. Poezie (experimentální poezie) (Prague: Edice Odeon, 1967); Artes Hispanicas 1.3-4 (Winter-Spring 1968); Selected Poems (2006).

“To Basil” (with CZ). Madeira & Toasts for Basil Bunting’s 75th Brithday. Ed. Jonathan Williams. Dentdale, UK: Jargon Society, 1975.

 

Translations:

 

Guillaume Apollinaire. “The Gathering” (included in “Sequence from ‘The Writings of Guillaume Apollinaire’). The Columbia Review (May 1934) [LZ incorporated a non-lineated version of this translation into the play Arise, arise (14, 18), and some of it made it way into “A”-24; lineated version rpt. in “Discarded Poems” (1979): 158].

Alain Bosquet. “The Need to Have You” (from “L’Image Impardonnable”). View 1.3 (Spring 1943): 22. Rpt. WCW/LZ 311.

Alain Bosquet. “Pluck the Cascade” (“Cueillir la cascade”). Maryland Quarterly 1 (1944): 19.

 

Collaborations included in An “Objectivists” Anthology (1932):

 

Kenneth Rexroth, “Prolegomena to a Theodicy” [abridged by LZ, Aug. 29]: 189-192.

Jerry Reisman — L. Z. “After Les Collines (G. A.)”: 193.

R.B.N. Warriston, “Bora, Bora” [arranged by L.Z.]: 194-195.

William Carlos Williams, “March” [Words by William Carlos Williams, Re-written by L.Z., Feb. 16, 1930]: 196-200.