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

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