Almost Invisible
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"This is a Borzoi book"--T.p. verso.
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.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2012.
Year Published: 2012
Description: x, 53 p. ; 22 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780307957313
0307957314
SUBJECTS
American poetry -- 20th century.