Alexander Trocchi's "Man at Leisure" (1972)








London, England: Calder & Boyars Ltd. (book, compilation), 1972.
8" x 5.375" x 0.5", 96 pages, hardcover with dust jacket, ISBN 0-7145-0357-6.

Man at Leisure, a collection of poetry by Alexander Trocchi, as published in hardcover by Calder & Boyars Ltd. (London, England) in 1972.

William S. Burroughs contributes the introduction to this book, "Alex Trocchi Cosmonaut of Inner Space", at pages 9–10.

Maynard & Miles B64.
Shoaf II.84.

Contents: 

  • William S. Burroughs: "Introduction: 'Alex Trocchi Cosmonaut of Inner Space'"
  • Alexander Trocchi: Man at Leisure:
    • "Where to Begin"
    • "Myrtle with the Light Blue Hair"
    • "Bubonics"
    • "The Water Spout"
    • "Wind from the Bosphorus"
    • "Sad' Poems"
    • "'Unless She Comes'"
    • "The Brown Land"
    • "Portrait"
    • "Poem"
    • "He Tasted History with a Yellow Tooth"
    • "In the White Bowl of Yr Thighs"
    • "Love Poem"
    • "Belinda"
    • "Obscene"
    • "Conception"
    • "Beware of the Boarhunt"
    • "Marilyn"
    • "What Is That?"
    • "A Beginning"
    • "Sigma"
    • "A Prolegomena to Praxis"
    • "For John Donne Master Metaphysical"
    • "Fear"
    • "Into My Church"
    • "End & Beginning"
    • "A Little Geography Lesson for My Sons and Daughters"
    • "'How at Thebes Tiresias, the Prophet Told ...'"
    • "Tabula Rasa"
    • "The Man and the Moon"
    • "The Jolly Bishop"
    • "Letters to Contemporaries"
    • "Did I Meet You in Persopolis?"
    • "from Sappho of Lesbos"
    • "Lessons fr Boys & Girls I"
    • "Lessons fr Boys & Girls II"
    • "Lessons fr Boys & Girls III"
    • "£ S D (Love, Sex, Death, Pounds, Shillings, Pence, Lysergic Acid)"
    • "The Stinking Cauldron"
    • "The Worldly Wisdom of Cdr T. Taskmaster Disaster, R.N."
    • "In Pursuit of Woman"
    • "Advt."
    • "Myrtle Again"
    • "L'Enfer... c'est les autres: Views"
    • "21"
    • "Boxes"
    • "Man at Leisure"
    • "America"
    • "Sexistential..."

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