pt. 1. Politics and prophecies. Political life : Poetry, Violence, and the Trembling Lambs (1959) ; Back to the Wall (1964) ; Demonstration or Spectacle As Example, As Communication (1965) ; Coming to Terms with the Hell's Angels (1977) ; The Fall of America wins an award (1974) ; Nuts to Plutonium! (1978) ; Introduction to "Smoking Typewriters" (1981) ; Outline of Un-American Activities (1983)

Vietnam and political conventions : Statement written for Authors Take Sides on Vietnam (1967) ; 1968 Chicago Democratic National Convention (1968) ; All Is Poetry (1968) ; Television Address (1972)

International : Declaration of Three (1982) ; China Trip (1985) ; Statement to The Burning Bush (1963) ; Thoughts and Recurrent Musing on Israeli Arguments (1974) ; Statement Concerning Dissident Human Rights (1985) ; An Indirect Encounter: India (1964)

pt. 2. Drug culture : U.S. Senate Statement (1966) ; A National Hallucination (1966) ; Preface and a Trip [LSD] (1978) ; The Great Marijuana Hoax (1966) ; Ginsberg Talks about Speed (1970) ; Prefatory Remarks Concerning Leary's Politics of Ecstasy (1968) ; Declaration of Independence for Dr. Timothy Leary (1971) ; Om Ah Hum: 43 Temporary Questions on Dr. Leary (1974)

pt. 3. Mindfulness and spirituality. Personal consciousness : Public Solitude (1966) ; Everybody Should Get High for the Next Ten Years (1959) ; Prose Contribution to Cuban Revolution (1961) ; Letter to Wall Street Journal (1966) ; Anger Advice

Meditation and Eastern influences : Reflections on the Mantra (1966) ; CBC Broadcast on Mantra (1969) ; Meditation and Poetics (1980) ; A Collage of Haiku (1978)

pt. 4. Censorship and sex laws. Letter to Ralph Ginzberg (1962) ; Thoughts on NAMBLA (1994) ; Big Table Support Testimony (ca. 1960) ; Open letter re: New York Review of Sex & Politics (1969) ; Statement [on censorship] (1990) ; Noticing What Is Vivid (1993) ; Political Correctness (1994) ; C.O.P. Statement on Lenny Bruce (1964) ; Committee on Poetry Charter Statement (1966)

pt. 5. Autobiographical fragments. Autobiographic Precis (1970) ; Chamberlain's Nakeds (1964) ; Early Influences (1971) ; What Six Nice People Found in the Government's Drawers (1976) ; Contemplation on Publications (1978) ; Notes on Stanford Literary Acquisition of My Archives (1994) ; Confrontation with Louis Ginsberg's Poems (1969) ; Brother Poet (1972)

pt. 6. Literary technique and the Beat Generation. Notes Written on Finally Recording Howl (1959) ; How Kaddish Happened (1966) ; A Definition of the Beat Generation (1981) ; The Six Gallery Reading (1957) ; Abstraction in Poetry (1961) ; Retrospect on Beat Generation (1992) ; "When the Mode of the Music Changes, the Walls of the City Shake" (1961) ; Poetics: Mind Is Shapely, Art Is Shapely (1959) ; What Way I Write (1960) ; Poet's "Voice" (1965) ; Some Metamorphoses of Personal Prosody (1966) ; Some Different Considerations in Mindful Arrangement of Open Verse Forms on the Page (1977) ; Fourteen Steps for Revising Poetry (1982) ; Meditation and Poetics (1987) ; Exercises in Poetic Candor (1980s)

pt. 7. Writers. William Blake : Liner Notes to Blake Record (1969) ; Your Reason and Blake's System (1978)

Walt Whitman : On Walt Whitnam, Composed on the Tongue (1980) ; Whitman's Influence: A Mountain Too Vast to Be Seen (1992)

William Carlos Williams : Williams in a World of Objects (1976)

Jack Kerouac : The Dharma Bums Review (1958) ; The Great Rememberer (1972) ; Kerouac's Ethic (1990) ; To America: Kerouac's Pomes All Sizes (1992)

William S. Burroughs : William S. Burroughs Academy Blurbs (1975/1982) ; Junky: An Appreciation (1952) ; Junky: Introduction (1976) ; Recollections of Burroughs Letters (1981) ; William S. Burroughs Nobel Prize (ca. 1995)

Gregory Corso : Corso Academy Blurb (1994) ; Introduction to Gasoline (1957) ; On Corso's Virtues (1989)

Peter Orlovsky : Peter Orlovsky Clean Asshole Poems Blurb (1978)

Carl Solomon : Carl Solomon Emergency Messages Blurb (1988)

Herbert Huncke : Blurb for Herbert Huncke's Journal (1965) ; On Huncke's Book (1968)

Michael McClure : Michael McClure Guggenheim Recommendation (1971)

Gary Snyder : My Mythic Thumbnail Biography of Gary Snyder (1991) ; Gary Snyder Recommendation (ca. 1994)

Kenneth Rexroth : Kenneth Rexroth: 1905-1982 (1982)

Robert Duncan : Robert Duncan [Obit] (1988)

Robert Creeley : The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley Blurb (1982) ; On Creeley's Ear Mind (1977)

John Wieners : Foreword to John Wieners' Selected Poems (1985)

Diane di Prima : Pieces of a Song by Diane di Prima Blurb (1990)

Lawrence Ferlinghetti : Lawrence Ferlinghetti Academy Blurb (1995)

Anne Waldman : Makeup on Empty Space by Anne Waldman Blurb (1984)

Alan Ansen : Contact Highs by Alan Ansen Blurb (1989)

Ray Bremser : Ray Bremser and His Poetry (1964)

Antler : Antler Factory Blurb (1980) ; Antler's "Last Words" (1980)

Andy Clausen : Introduction to Without Doubt by Andy Clausen (1991)

David Cope : Foreword to Quiet Lives by David Cope (1983)

Eliot Katz : Space by Eliot Katz, an Introduction (1990)

pt. 8. Further appreciations. Robert LaVigne : Robert LaVigne Exhibit (1958)

Philip Lamantia : Lamantia As Forerunner (1963)

Henri Michaux : On Henri Michaux (1965)

Jean Genet : Genet's Commencement Discourse (1970)

W.H. Auden : Remembering Auden (1973)

John Lennon and Yoko Ono : Visas for Lennon and Ono (ca. 1972) ; Lennon/Ono and Poetic Tradition (1973) ; Beatles Essay (1984)

Andy Warhol : Andy Warhol [Festschrift] (1989)

Chögyam Trungpa : Introduction to First Thought Best Thought (1976/1983)

Robert Frank : Robert Frank to 1985, A Man (1986)

Philip Glass : Hydrogen Jukebox (1991)

Hiro Yamagata : Hiro Yamagata's Holy Ghost XX Century Automobiles (1994)

Eric Drooker : Drooker's Illuminations (1995)

Chaim Gross : Remembering Chaim Gross (1991)

John Cage : John Cage: 1912-1992 (1992)

The living theatre : Living Theatre and Its U.S. Critics (1985)

St. Mark's poetry project : Foreword for Out of This World (1991)