Chapters (41)
- CONCERNING AMERICA
- CRY, NAKED AND PERSONAL
- FANTASY
- HATRED OF METAPHOR AND SIMILE
- TIME, INFINITY, AND ETERNITY, DESCEND UPON A BLACK DERBY HAT
- I WALK UPON A STREET
- THE INCURABLE MYSTIC ANSWERS WESTERN AMBITIONS
- PLATONIC NARRATIVE
- PORTRAITS
- I.
- II.
- III.
- IV.
- V.
- VI.
- VII.
- NEGRO CRIMINAL
- SHORT STORY IN SONNET FORM
- FEMININE TALK
- THE SWORD CONVERSES WITH A PHILOSOPHER
- CAPTAIN SIMMONS
- MORE ABOUT CAPTAIN SIMMONS
- CAPTAIN SIMMONS’ WIFE
- NORTH CLARK STREET, CHICAGO
- I.
- II.
- III.
- LANDSCAPE
- COUNTRY GIRL
- NONDESCRIPT TYPIST
- CONCERNING EMOTIONS
- METAPHYSICAL ELIZABETH
- DESCRIPTION AND EXHORTATION
- INEVITABLE
- THE NEGROES WHO TURNED WHITE
- EXPRESSIONS ON A CHILD’S FACE
- PSYCHIC CLOWNS
- DEAR MINNA
- VILLAGE CLERK
- REALISM
- AMERICAN VAUDEVILLE SHOW
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