soil into a sea of poetic possibilities that, he supposes, will occasion his artistic growth. However, Crispin is left there at an impasse, frustrated in his hope to find roots in some locale or other. One reading of "Tea at the Palaz of Hoon" is that it anticipates the direction that Stevens would take in the thirties, towards a pure poetry that would be independent of locale. Second edition: Table of Contents (1930) Earthy Anecdote Invective Against Swans In the Carolinas The Paltry Nude Starts on a Spring Voyage The Plot Against the Giant Infanta Marina Domination of Black The Snow Man The Ordinary Women The Load Of Sugar-Cane Le Monocle de Mon Oncle Nuances of a Theme by Williams Metaphors of a Magnifico Ploughing on Sunday Cy Est Pourtraicte, Madame Ste Ursule, et Les Unze Mille Vierges Hibiscus on the Sleeping Shores Fabliau of Florida The Doctor of Geneva Another Weeping Woman Homunculus et la Belle Etoile The Comedian as the Letter C From the Misery of Don Joost O Florida, Venereal Soil Last Looks at the Lilacs The Worms at Heaven's Gate The Jack-Rabbit Anecdote of Men by the Thousand The Silver Plough Boy The Apostrophe to Vincentine Floral Decorations for Bananas Anecdote of Canna On the Manner of Addressing Clouds Of Heaven Considered as a Tomb Of the Surface of Things Anecdote of the Prince of Peacocks A High-Toned Old Christian Woman The Place of the Solitaires The Weeping Burgher The Curtains in the House of the Metaphysician Banal Sojourn Depression Before Spring The Emperor of Ice-Cream The Cuban Doctor Tea at the Palaz of Hoon Exposition of the Contents of a Cab Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock Sunday Morning The Virgin Carrying a Lantern Stars at Tallapoosa Explanation Six Significant Landscapes Bantams in Pine-Woods Anecdote of the Jar Palace of the Babies Frogs Eat Butterflies. Snakes Eat Frogs. Hogs Eat Snakes. Men Eat Hogs Jasmine's Beautiful Thoughts Underneath The Willow Cortège for Rosenbloom Tattoo The Bird with the Coppery, Keen Claws Life Is Motion Architecture The Wind Shifts Colloquy with a Polish Aunt Gubbinal Two Figures In Dense Violet Night Theory To the One of Fictive Music Hymn from a Watermelon Pavilion Peter Quince at the Clavier Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird Nomad Exquisite Tea Poems Added to Harmonium (1931) The Man Whose Pharynx Was Bad The Death of a Soldier Negation The Surprises of