uncollected poems
for 2002+ Annotated Archival Edition

by Gene Fowler


In June 2007, I have finally made the link on the table of book pointing to uncollected poems live and am typing the first of these into what will have the look of a chapbook like those on this table. I may be a little lazy about typing poems that tended, in wild mimeo-revolution days, to spread all over an 8½ x 11 page, but I've been lazy about all else and these poems, too, will be included.

All through the sixties and seventies I lived largely by crashes and dinner invitations and the kindness of friends and strangers. Boxes of belongings were often lost in moving them from one person's garage to another's. Even in 1975, when Paul foreman and I sat in a coffee house and built the acknowledgements page for Fires: Selected Poems 1963 - 1976, I could not recall magazines with generous people and lively names I was half sure belonged in the list or others I could simply not recall at all. I'm sure poems exist on pages turning brown in attics and basements I have no memory of having written.... But a few things are in this house and some, maybe most, of those are in a stack for typing. I'm going to add in a second section and put in a few things from these late days when, in this opened cyberswirl the boudaries of a poem's core are permeable and materials seemingly extraneous are within the poem. This is a tease, in a sense, so you may go looking for me in this 21st century and with its literary and publishing, presentation of the work, nature. Not much of this. My site space is about filled....

Table of contents

The Street Poem

Tales Among the Dancers

HIGH-COOL

Note left for Coyote

Desert Blossom

Two Sides Of This Rolling Coin

Madness - for R.M.R.

Dance Notes - to be read before sections of a dance production

Larvae 1 - Moving partly within predecessors in San Francisco

Larvae 2 - Moving partly within predecessors in San Francisco

Larvae 3 - Moving partly within predecessors in San Francisco

Larvae 4 - Moving partly within predecessors in San Francisco

Larvae 5 - Moving partly within predecessors in San Francisco

Larvae 6 - Moving partly within predecessors in San Francisco

Passionate Hippy to His Love

HaikuScatter

To Go - Novel-readers dream of San Francisco

Big Sur

Whistling

A Sound of Children

Hide and Seek

Radio Poem

The Immortal

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The future...

Reciprocal Dreams

Time Machine
In a haikuish mood - message in a bottle