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Almost invisible

Call Number

  • 811 S897.3 (CEN)

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Edition

1st ed.

Publication Information

New York : Alfred A Knopf, 2012.

Physical Description

x, 53 p. ; 22 cm.

Notes

"This is a Borzoi Book"--T.p. verso.

Contents

  • A banker in the brothel of blind women
  • Bury your face in your hands
  • Anywhere could be somewhere
  • Harmony in the boudoir
  • Clarities of the nonexistent
  • The minister of culture gets his wish
  • The old age of nostalgia
  • Dream testicles, vanished vaginas
  • The students of the ineffable
  • The everyday enchantment of music
  • The buried melancholy of the poet
  • Ever so many hundred years hence
  • Exhaustion at sunset
  • Clear in the September light
  • You can always get there from here
  • The gallows in the garden
  • Love silhouetted by lamplight
  • The triumph of the infinite
  • The mysterious arrival of an unusual letter
  • Poem of the Spanish poet
  • The enigma of the infinitesimal
  • A dream of travel
  • The emergency room at dusk
  • Once upon a cold November morning
  • Provisional eternity
  • The street at the end of the world
  • The Nietzschean hourglass, or the future's misfortune
  • An event about which no more need be said
  • A short panegyric
  • Hermetic melancholy
  • A letter from Tegucigalpa
  • Mystery and solitude in Topeka
  • There was nothing to be done
  • No words can describe it
  • In the afterlife
  • Futility in Key West
  • On the hidden beauty of my sickness
  • With only the stars to guide us
  • Trouble in Pocatello
  • Like a leaf carried off by the wind
  • The social worker and the monkey
  • Nobody knows what is known
  • Those little legs and awful hands
  • Not to miss the great thing
  • Nocturne of the poet who loved the moon
  • In the grand ballroom of the new eternity
  • When I turned a hundred.