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Eigner Collection: Kenneth Spencer Research Library Callmark Eigner # Date Composed Title First Line Literary for Leaves Note Eigner Collection: Kenneth Spencer Research Library Callmark Eigner # Date composed Title First line Literary for Leaves Note MS 39.A.01 ((1)) 1950, 1951, CARN This car goes under the bridge Poem 1 In NAKED EAR #8, 195-? or 1952 MS 39.A.02 ((2)) "Keep at it,..." Poem 1 MS 39.A.03 3 LARGE I tried to put them together Poem 1 MS 39.A.04 ((3)) LARGE I tried to put them together... Poem 1 MS 39.A.05 ((4)) Day Crowd Weather Life by eating and passing... Poem 2 MS 39.A.06 8 a flat--faced dog [/] with his nose on the Poem 1 In NEW ORLEANS POETRY ground… JOURNAL MS 39.A.07 12 Cherry Orchard The stage, a former playroom, Poem 1 MS 39.A.08 ((12)) Cherry Orchard no chair tipped over Poem 1 MS 39.A.09 ((12)) Distance from Concord The constitution one of a mass… Poem 1 MS 39.A.10 13 Crane Man chasing the sky, or the hills Poem 1 MS 39.A.11 ((13)) 1958/60 as if blindness, the sun Poem 1 MS 39.A.12 (((15))) H In one point: split. We were. Poem 1 MS 39.A.13 (((15))) H In one point: split We were Poem 1 MS 39.A.14 (((16))) the dark swimmers poem 1 (f2) MS 39.A.15 (((17))) With the world a chameleon, I come... Poem 1 MS 39.A.16 18 Statury graduates always smile Poem 1 MS 39.A.16a (((20))) OUT day blots us, blot Poem 1 In EYES Wednesday, December 02, 2009 Page 1 of 303 Eigner Collection: Kenneth Spencer Research Library Callmark Eigner # Date composed Title First line Literary for Leaves Note MS 39.A.17 (((21))) (j9) field, the only place Poem 1 MS 39.A.18 ((24)) Le Marchand Let there be pretended trouble Poem 1 MS 39.A.19 ((25)) I spend half an hour ringing the bell Poem 1 MS 39.A.20 26 Mock Wagner's Broken conversations matter Poem 1 MS 39.A.21 ((32)) Before 1953 Some Numbers Down by various ways different men Poem 1 MS 39.A.22 ((36)) OR FEAR ITSELF old silvery tones Poem 1 MS 39.A.23 37 Would like to see Poem 1 MS 39.A.24 ((37)) 1966/03/12 my goodness we Poem 1 MS 39.A.25 ((37')) 1966/03/13 water is enough/glass there Poem 1 MS 39.A.26 38 Sunday You look only in one direction Poem 1 MS 39.A.27 ((39)) ALTER yr Poem 2 MS 39.A.28 ((39)) 1966/03/15- the moving tribe is/local Poem 1 04/15 MS 39.A.29 ((40)) Length they went and Poem 1 MS 39.A.30 ((41)) Under Same Windows It's a flash old cloud of dust! Poem 1 MS 39.A.31 ((42)) A, Is it Serious A book with a jacket Poem 1 MS 39.A.32 ((43)) There are many things we do not… Poem 1 MS 39.A.33 ((44)) What happened? Poem 1 MS 39.A.34 ((44)) What Happened? Poem 1 MS 39.A.35 (((46))) THE HOLLOW ROAR by the sea is Poem 1 Wednesday, December 02, 2009 Page 2 of 303 Eigner Collection: Kenneth Spencer Research Library Callmark Eigner # Date composed Title First line Literary for Leaves Note MS 39.A.36 ((46)) 1965/12/07 so the words go up Poem 1 MS 39.A.37 ((46')) 1965/12/13 the rain [/] singing continently Poem 1 MS 39.A.38 ((4.6)) 1965/12/24 a house divided [/] a tree--hut Poem 1 MS 39.A.39 ((46)) B Is it serious, or funny? Poem 1 MS 39.A.40 ((47)) blank - b 1 remember the sabbath... Poem 1 MS 39.A.41 ((48)) Position of Ease Now I will do it, I said, Poem 5 MS 39.A.42 ((50)) 1952/?/? More leaves, company in death Poem 1 MS 39.A.43 ((50')) 1965/07/14 out of/no thing, quiet, the air Poem 1 MS 39.A.44 ((50')) 1965/07/15 the radio window easy Poem 1 MS 39.A.45 ((5')) 1965/07/16 wings songs/ fill the air Poem 1 MS 39.A.46 ((5')) 1965/07/16 noise absorbed/in the air Poem 1 MS 39.A.47 51 I Thought Bird Shifted my arm, my hand in my shoulder Poem 1 MS 39.A.48 ((51)) Thick and fast Poem 1 MS 39.A.48 ((4m)) 1959/11 clouds ' amazing speed Poem 1 MS 39.A.49 52 because the face fades from your mind Poem 1 MS 39.A.50 53 & Company Greetings As they've got to make Poem 1 In INTRANSITJuly 1955 MS 39.A.51 56 1953/?/? The rain which I have imagined at night Poem 1 MS 39.A.52 ((56)) 1966/03/6- sometime that makes it sound better Poem 1 10 MS 39.A.53 ((5'6)) 1966/03/11 In the raw Poem 1 Wednesday, December 02, 2009 Page 3 of 303 Eigner Collection: Kenneth Spencer Research Library Callmark Eigner # Date composed Title First line Literary for Leaves Note MS 39.A.54 ((56')) 1966/03/11 the neat life in Poem 1 MS 39.A.55 ((56')) 1966/03/11 the neat life in Poem 1 MS 39.A.56 ((56)) c.2 1966/03/6- sometime that makes it sound better Poem 1 10 MS 39.A.57 57 Apples in the October wind Poem 1 MS 39.A.58 ((57')) 1966/03/13 Entering and going out, Poem 1 MS 39.A.59 58 They thought they would eat, but it was a Poem 1 trap MS 39.A.60 (((63.))) Place just right When I came to the last milestone--imagine Poem 1 MS 39.A.61 ((65)) Open They nod at me and I at stems Poem 1 MS 39.A.62 ((66)) Clears Light retreats now from inside Poem 1 MS 39.A.63 ((66')) 1966/28/03 more car doors opening than Poem 1 MS 39.A.64 ((66')) 1966/03/28 more car doors opening than Poem 1 MS 39.A.65 1966/03/23 a spread like stars Poem 1 MS 39.A.66 (((69)) The Day Breathe to be worn, lightly Poem 2 MS 39.A.67 ((70.)) after all the singing faces, you Poem 1 MS 39.A.68 ((68)) Immovably Blazes the untimed room the rug Poem 1 MS 39.A.69 73 and the squirrel Poem MS 39.A.70 72 1951 or Profil Which/life for Poem 1952 MS 39.A.71 ((73')) 1965/07/13 Take life easy In the thickening woods Poem 1 Wednesday, December 02, 2009 Page 4 of 303 Eigner Collection: Kenneth Spencer Research Library Callmark Eigner # Date composed Title First line Literary for Leaves Note MS 39.A.72 ((73")) 1965/07/8- and here comes a/washboard Poem 1 10 MS 39.A.73 ((73")) 1965/07/8- and here comes a [/] washboard Poem 1 10 MS 39.A.74 ((75)) Voice, Free come to stand through Poem 1 In SPARROW #4, 1955 MS 39.A.75 76 B r a v i n g every body's color 1 MS 39.A.76 ((77)) The Cripples The cripples are beyond religions Poem 1 In SPARROW #4, 1955 MS 39.A.77 ((77)) The Cripples The cripples are beyond religions Poem 1 MS 39.A.78 ((86)) DIM VALLEY a long time Poem 1 MS 39.A.79 (((87))) everyday. afterwards I eat at the table with Poem 1 In EYES #84 her MS 39.A.80 ((87)) The cat gawked high on the window Poem 1 MS 39.A.81 ((87)) The Cat gawked high on the window Poem 1 MS 39.A.82 ((90)) The age of Ann Frank Tempted by choice Poem 1 MS 39.A.83 ((99)) Properties What we saw was a half-clapped roof Poem 1 MS 39.A.84 *100 1959 HAIKU motor around Poem 1 In MIGRANT 1959 or 1960 MS 39.A.85 101 Be With Me (slowly Beauty is immortal Poem 1 dying) MS 39.A.86 102 1961/01/07 To hang on the wall Poem 1 MS 39.A.87 103 Be With Me (slowly Beauty is immortal Poem 1 dying) MS 39.B.001 ((a3)) Day Square The dogs, my forebears, Poem 1 Wednesday, December 02, 2009 Page 5 of 303 Eigner Collection: Kenneth Spencer Research Library Callmark Eigner # Date composed Title First line Literary for Leaves Note MS 39.B.002 ((a4)) News, Music Dress for the Mozart Serenade Poem 1 MS 39.B.003 ((a8)) moving a finger, motionless Poem 1 MS 39.B.004 ((a9)) The Way applied an old woman the Poem 1 MS 39.B.005 b3 1953/06/25 Environs Many shapes of wings Poem 1 MS 39.B.006 ((b5)) WALLS OF THE AIR yes, the crockers still make Poem 1 MS 39.B.007 ((b7)) What's to be done with it, Poem 1 MS 39.B.008 ((b8)) Wind Put together [/] but always carved Poem 1 MS 39.B.009 ((b8)) Hewings After tall and blowing summer Poem 1 MS 39.B.010 ((c)) THE WAY THEY DIED the accidents Poem 1 MS 39.B.011 ((c1)) Another One The head, perhaps, bloodied and printed Poem 1 MS 39.B.012 ((c2)) THE CARICATURE man, as if out Poem 1 MS 39.B.013 ((c4)) Is it dawn or a weird sea Poem 1 MS 39.B.014 d1 1954[?] Time and again, different, the same Poem 1 MS 39.B.015 d2 didn't want to be tired Poem 1 In OLE #6, July 1966 MS 39.B.016 ((d3)) Along Lines Of the movement, the 2nd concerto Poem 1 MS 39.B.017 ((d4)) God but the silence grows [/] into a noise Poem 1 On verso of a note to LE from RC [Robert Creeley?] dated 1957/3/17;; in HEARSE I MS 39.B.018 ((d5)) the pigeon's wings and tail look Poem 1 Wednesday, December 02, 2009 Page 6 of 303 Eigner Collection: Kenneth Spencer Research Library Callmark Eigner # Date composed Title First line Literary for Leaves Note MS 39.B.019 ((d5)) 1964/03/29 BOCCACIO, AMONG I see that sex is the joke Poem 1 THE THOUSANDS I HAVEN'T READ MS 39.B.020 ((d9)) I am not completely certain [/] that this is Poem 1 Thursday MS 39.B.021 ((e1)) Birthday Every-body was supposed to be enthusiastic Poem 1 In ORIGIN 14 [/] EYES 41 it MS 39.B.022 (Dup of e1) Birthday Every-body was supposed to be enthusiastic Poem In ORIGIN 14 [/] EYES 41 it MS 39.B.023 ((e6)) HE MUST HAVE GOT The dog's imaginations ? In EYES 82 UP EARLY MS 39.B.024 ((e9) Alas, Alas, Who's Injured, look I'm no Cyrano Poem 1 MS 39.B.025 ((f)) Counter for Ferrini it takes time to walk Poem 1 MS 39.B.026 ((f1)) as I held the mirror Poem 1 In EYES 23 MS 39.B.027 ((f2)) Front the dark swimmers Poem 1 In EYES #15 MS 39.B.028 ((f3)) PIECE Open the windows wide (half) Poem 1 MS 39.B.029 ((f4)) my eyes went where there was a tree Poem 1 MS 39.B.030 f4'' 1964/11/23- Deep valleys [/] the neighbor's windows Poem 1 27 MS 39.B.030 f4' 1964/11/20 Long branches sideways [/] birds flock over Poem 1 MS 39.B.031 Vacant MS 39.B.032 Vacant MS 39.B.033 ((f5)) In the midst of pain I think of you Poem 1 Wednesday, December 02, 2009 Page 7 of 303 Eigner Collection: Kenneth Spencer Research Library Callmark Eigner # Date composed Title First line Literary for Leaves Note MS 39.B.034 ((f5)) 1963/06/22- a few times [/] claustrophobia Poem 1 1963/08/30 MS 39.B.034 ((g5)) 1963/06/22 I sneeze there [/] was a butterfly Poem 1 MS 39.B.035 ((f7)) I look at you, and still there is time Poem 1 MS 39.B.036 ((f8)) not like an animal but as yourself Poem 1 MS 39.B.037 ((f9)) Between my two trees Poem 1 MS 39.B.038 ((g)) The trees are growing bigger Poem
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