Part I: 1940's -- An Embryo for God: Tropic of Capricorn -- The Homosexual in Society -- What to Do Now -- Reviewing View, An Attack -- Poetics of Music: Stravinsky -- The Poet and Poetry - A Symposium -- Part II: 1950's -- Pages from a Notebook -- From a Notebook -- Notes on Poetics regardng Olson's Maximus -- Part III: 1960's -- Properties and Our Real Estate -- Ideas of the Meaning of Form -- After For Love -- Preface: Helen Adam, Ballads -- Poetry before Language -- The Lasting Contribution of Ezra Pound -- The Sweetness and Greatness of Dante's Divine Comedy -- Introduction: William Everson, Single Source -- Towards an Open Universe -- The Truth and Life of Myth: An Essay in Essential Autobiography -- A Critical Difference of View -- Man's Fulfillment in Order and Strife -- Jack Spicer, Poet 1925-1965 -- Part IV: 1970's -- Changing Perspectives in Reading Whitman -- Notes on Gossinger's Solar Journal: Oecological Sections -- Iconographical Extensions -- Of George Herms, His Hermes, and His Hermetic Art -- From Notes on the Structure of Rime -- Preface to a Reading of Passages 1-22 -- Kopóltuš -- Introduction: Allen Upward, The Divine Mystery -- An Art of Wondering -- A Reading of Thirty Things -- As Testimony: Reading Zukofsky These Forty Years -- Wallace Berman: The Fashioning Spirit -- In Introduction: John Taggart, Dodeka -- Part V: 1980's -- Preface: Jack Spicer, One Night Stand & Other Poems -- The Adventure of Whitman's Line -- The Self in Postmodern Poetry -- Statement on Jacobus for Borregaard's Museum -- Afterward: Beverly Dahlen, the Egyptian Poems -- The Delirium of Meaning.