What Matters Most Is How Well You Walk Through The Fire (1999)
Published as a poetry collection by Black Sparrow Press, 1/9/1999
Works in this Book
- Introduction to chapter 2 - pg. 131 - 1976
- Bravo! - pg. 316 - 1977
- $100 - pg. 274 - 1974
- $180 Gone - pg. 162
- 3 Old Men At Separate Tables - pg. 393 - circa 1994
- 38,000 To One - pg. 259 - 1974
- 4 Christs - pg. 159 - 1978
- 75 Million Dollars - pg. 155
- A Boy And His Dog - pg. 192 - 1977
- A Correction To A Lady Of Posey - pg. 343
- A New War - pg. 407 - circa 1993
- A Touch Of Steel - pg. 261 - 1976
- A Vote For The Gentle Light - pg. 377
- About A Trip To Spain - pg. 95 - 1977
- Action On The Corner - pg. 400 - 1978
- Am I The Only One Who Suffers Thus? - pg. 354
- An Afternoon In February - pg. 104 - 1974
- An Interlude - pg. 328
- An Old Jockey - pg. 182 - 1977
- An Unusual Place - pg. 172 - 1975
- Anonymity - pg. 330 - circa 1978
- Another Day - pg. 384
- Apprentices - pg. 257 - 1974
- Artistic Selfishness - pg. 236 - 1972
- Assault - pg. 144 - circa 1972
- At The Zoo - pg. 243 - circa 1973
- Ax And Blade - pg. 71
- Be Alone - pg. 379 - 1976
- Beast - pg. 234
- Beethoven Conducted His Last Symphony While Totally Deaf - pg. 346
- Blue Beads And Bones - pg. 69 - 1970
- The Blue Head Of Death - pg. 164 - circa 1974
- Born To Lose - pg. 76 - 1972
- Bright Lights And Serpents - pg. 270 - 1975
- Brown And Solemn - pg. 263
- Bruckner - pg. 124
- Butterflies - pg. 157 - 1974
- Canned Heat? - pg. 40
- Captain Goodwine - pg. 177 - 1975
- Carlton Way Off Western Ave. - pg. 241 - 1976
- Christmas Poem To A Man In Jail - pg. 115
- Coke Blues - pg. 244 - 1976
- Combat Primer - pg. 321 - 1978
- Comments On My Last Book Of Poesy - pg. 341 - circa 1989
- Computer Class - pg. 305
- Crickets - pg. 106 - 1972
- Daylight Saving Time - pg. 50 - 1972
- Demise - pg. 151 - 1973
- Dog Fight 1990 - pg. 365 - 1980
- Downtown - pg. 318 - 1977
- Everywhere, Everywhere - pg. 94
- Farewell My Lovely - pg. 339
- Fast Track - pg. 249 - 1972
- Fellow Countryman - pg. 300
- Floor Job - pg. 278 - 1976
- Full Moon - pg. 93 - 1975
- German Bar - pg. 277
- Gone Away - pg. 211 - 1978
- Guess Who? - pg. 169 - 1975
- Hanging There On The Wall - pg. 251 - circa 1991-1992
- Hard Times On Carlton Way - pg. 184 - 1977
- He Knows Us All - pg. 81
- Hollywood Ranch Market - pg. 204 - 1978
- Horseshit - pg. 52
- Hunchback - pg. 225 - 1976
- Hunger - pg. 58
- I Hear All The Latest Hit Tunes - pg. 352
- I Inherit - pg. 381 - circa 1992
- I Used To Feel Sorry For Henry Miller - pg. 367 - circa 1992
- I Want A Mermaid - pg. 170 - circa 1975
- I'll Send You A Postcard - pg. 315 - 1975
- Image - pg. 309
- In The Lobby - pg. 79
- In This Cage Some Songs Are Born - pg. 404
- In This City Now - pg. 174 - 1975
- Insanity - pg. 337 - 1978
- La Femme Finie - pg. 233 - 1972
- Legs And White Thighs - pg. 25 - 1975
- Legs - pg. 215 - 1978
- Legs, Hips And Behind - pg. 18
- Life Of The King - pg. 221
- Lifedance - pg. 90
- Like A Cherry Seed In The Throat - pg. 282 - 1975
- Locked In - pg. 369
- Looking For Jack - pg. 255 - 1970
- Mademoiselle From Armentieres - pg. 26
- Mahler - pg. 299
- Man's Best Friend - pg. 54 - circa 1992
- Me And Capote - pg. 227
- Mean And Stingy - pg. 272 - 1975
- Memory - pg. 239
- More Argument - pg. 84
- Morning Love - pg. 180 - 1977
- My Big Moment - pg. 47 - 1978
- My Father And The Bum - pg. 17 - 1975
- My Father's Big-Time Fling - pg. 29
- My Friends Down At The Corner - pg. 121
- My Garden - pg. 24 - circa 1972
- My Literary Fly - pg. 237 - 1971
- My Movie - pg. 405 - 1979
- Nana - pg. 188 - 1977
- Neither A Borrower Nor A Lender Be - pg. 293
- No Guru - pg. 402 - 1974
- No Title - pg. 65
- Nobody Home - pg. 245
- Nobody Knows The Trouble I've Seen - pg. 266 - circa 1967
- Note Left On The Dresser By A Lady Friend - pg. 213 - 1977
- Odd - pg. 326
- On Lighting A Cigar - pg. 358
- On Shaving - pg. 287
- On The Sidewalk And In The Sun - pg. 348 - 1972
- One More Good One - pg. 127
- One-To-Five - pg. 333
- Pershing Square, Los Angeles, 1939 - pg. 43 - circa 1992
- Phillipe's 1950 - pg. 78
- Plants Which Easily Winter Kills - pg. 137
- Poor Mimi - pg. 189
- Probably So - pg. 143 - 1972
- Rape - pg. 207 - 1978
- Raw With Love - pg. 148 - 1974
- Revolt In The Ranks - pg. 219 - circa 1991
- Roll The Dice - pg. 408
- Scene From 1940 - pg. 46
- School Days - pg. 291 - 1973
- She Comes From Somewhere - pg. 89 - 1974
- Slaughter - pg. 375
- Sloppy Love - pg. 196 - 1974
- Smiling, Shining, Singing - pg. 122 - 1972
- Snake Eyes? - pg. 119 - circa 1991-1994
- Some Notes On Bach And Hayden - pg. 73
- Sometimes Even Putting A Nickel Into A Parking Meter Feels Good - pg. 297 - 1975
- Stuck With It - pg. 397 - circa 1993
- Sunday Lunch At The Holy Mission - pg. 374
- Tabby Cat - pg. 386 - 1976
- Thanks For That - pg. 323
- 12 Hour Night - pg. 134
- The 8 Count Concerto - pg. 102
- The Angel Who Pushed His Wheelchair - pg. 108 - 1972
- The Artist - pg. 217 - circa 1973
- The Bakers Of 1935 - pg. 31
- The Bells - pg. 91 - 1972
- The Blue Pigeon - pg. 320 - 1975
- The Cigarette Of The Sun - pg. 361
- The Circus Of Death - pg. 111 - circa 1992
- The Crowd - pg. 389
- The Crunch (2) - pg. 312
- The Dangerous Ladies - pg. 194 - 1977
- The First One - pg. 61 - 1973
- The Gamblers - pg. 388 - 1979
- The Hookers, The Madmen And The Doomed - pg. 253
- The Icecream People - pg. 280 - circa 1973
- The Last Poetry Reading - pg. 139
- The Man? - pg. 114
- The Meaning Of It All - pg. 167 - 1975
- The Mice - pg. 22
- The Night I Saw George Raft In Vegas - pg. 63
- The Ordinary Cafe Of The World - pg. 285 - 1972
- The Pact - pg. 153 - 1975
- The People - pg. 35 - circa 1966
- The Pretty Girl Who Rented Rooms - pg. 36 - 1977
- The Professionals - pg. 100 - 1978
- The Railroad Yard - pg. 51 - 1978
- The Savior: 1970 - pg. 230
- The Sensitive, Young Poet - pg. 56
- The Silver Mirror - pg. 223 - 1975
- The Singer - pg. 395 - 1976
- The Way It Works - pg. 268
- The Young Man On The Bus Stop Bench - pg. 303 - 1977
- They Arrived In Time - pg. 324
- This Moment - pg. 126
- This Particular War - pg. 276 - 1976
- Time - pg. 264 - 1976
- To Lean Back Into It - pg. 363
- Too Many Blacks - pg. 66
- Too Soon - pg. 38
- Trouble In The Night - pg. 391
- Vallejo - pg. 98 - 1974
- Van Gogh - pg. 96 - 1976
- Victory - pg. 82 - 1978
- Wasted - pg. 372
- We Needed Him - pg. 186 - 1978
- What Do They Want? - pg. 350
- What? - pg. 88
- What's It All Mean? - pg. 332 - 1978
- When The Violets Roar At The Sun - pg. 99 - 1971
- White Dog - pg. 68 - 1977
- Wide And Moving - pg. 150 - 1972
- Wind The Clock - pg. 87
- Winter: 44th Year - pg. 203
- Woman In The Supermarket - pg. 247 - 1973
- You Do It While You're Killing Flies - pg. 133 - circa 1973
- Young Men - pg. 166
- Igloo - pg. 20 - 1978
Posts that link here
- Database updated
- It's All a Matter of Entertainment - 1975 poem with MANY revisions
- Dirty, vulgar poem
- Scott Harrison has spoken! The world at large stifles a yawn.
- Candidate Middle of Left-Right Center - some revisionist history
- I love the 4th of July!
- Poor Pound - ouch!
- 1970 - Runcible Spoon - dooby do do do, shoot the goat through the head, the vast area of space
- I take much pleasure in being alone ...
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