Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-358) and index.
"The walled garden," 1915-1933 -- "Not at all what one is used to-," 1934-1942 -- "Shapiro Shangri La," 1943-1949 -- "Writing poetry," 1950-1954 -- "On the wing," 1955-1958 -- "Courting the lovers," 1958-1961 -- "book and bed and booze and blunders of the heart," 1962-1965 -- "The unaired flat," 1966-1973 -- "The dead center of all alone," 1974-1981