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Book SynopsisThe first English collection of this irresistible French poet's work
Table of ContentsTranslator’s Introduction • from The Nothing Bird (1984) • A treatise on Wolves • from Short Fictions The Snow • Childhood • Sunday • The Journey • Art Objects, Six Frights • The Edge of the Woods • The Courtyard • The Stable • The Wall • The Office • The Room • from The Fiddler Crab • from Life in the Countryside • Sunday • The Cats • The Old Washhouse • Migrations • Closure • from In Settlement for All Dreams • April’s Wolf from The Loris-Atlantique • Twelve Torments from The Twisted Eye (2003) • The Twisted Eye • September Alone • from The Tiger and the Signifier • The Lovers • The Images • The Foam of Lions • Before the End • Glimmers • from Perfect Hurts and Other Achievements (2007) • Boulevard des Invalides • A Few of the Words I Was Mysteriously Allowed Until Now • It Will Come in My Left Lung • The Watchman • Furniture • After You • The Bubble Ball • Written for the Occasion • Iris Waterfall • The Bridge • The Ocean of the Washhouse and Even the Rust is Blue • The Lawn • Hurry • The Night • A Walk With • The Useless • Red Water • I Don’t • The Wind in April 2007 • A Truth Told to the Loved Woman • Do You. . . • Acknowledgments
