Spearhead: 10 Years' Experimental Writing in America

The best of the first ten years of the annual New Directions in Prose & Poetry—American authors only, mostly experimental and avant-garde writings. The toy balloon / Robert Lowry -- Five poems / Muriel Rukeyser -- The labyrinth / Anais Nin -- Two poems / Oscar Williams -- Aunt Julia's Caesar / Maud Hutchins -- At the foot of the page / Lionel Abel -- The phoenix & the tortoise / Kenneth Rexroth -- The Mohammedans / H.J. Kaplan -- Xmas gift / Charles Henri Ford -- The facts of life ; A ceremonial ; The commodity embodied in bread / Paul Goodman -- The Greenberg manuscripts / Samuel Greenberg -- The Prairie Avenue piano recital ; The unmusical consequences of the Italian orgeltochter / Montagu O'Reilly -- Four poems / Marianne Moore -- The inhabitants / Wright Morris -- Azeff Wischmeier, the Bolshevik bureaucrat / Georg Mann -- Five poems / Randall Jarrell -- The cosmodemonic rigolade / Henry Miller -- Ten poems / Jose Garcia Villa -- The mugging / Jack Jones -- 27 wagons full of cotton / Tennessee Williams -- A dead one / David Kerner -- Five poems / John Wheelwright -- The pool game / William Saroyan -- Six poems ; The House of the Frowning Heart / Kenneth Patchen -- Flight / Selden Rodman -- Hurry, hurry! / Eleanor Clark -- Three poems / Kay Boyle -- Statement of Ashby Wyndham / Robert Penn Warren -- Seven poems / E.E. Cummings -- The imaginary Jew / John Berryman -- Four cantos / Ezra Pound -- Daniel Webster ; A water-fall and a piano / Gertrude Stein -- Watchman, what of the night? / Djuna Barnes -- A selection from Let us now praise famous men / James Agee & Walker Evans -- From Paterson ; Ten little poems ; Night ; Perpetuum mobile, the city / William Carlos Williams -- Seven poems / Josephine Miles -- Every man his own private detective ; Freud of Assisi / Parker Tyler -- Twelve poems / James Laughlin -- Vertigralist pamphlet / Eugene Jolas -- Four poems / Karl Shapiro -- In dreams begin responsibilities ; A selection from Genesis ; Two lyrics / Delmore Schwartz.