The Village on Horseback · Prose and Verse, 2003-2008 by Ball, Jesse -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

introduction parables and lies — 2003

~ ~ ~ ONE

The Coming Upon A Play The Palace A Bird’s Judgment A Visitor Banditry A Lark The Bank of Perth The Suitors The Seamstress of Bao Suk One Door or Two Trickery

TWO

A Letter Before the Emperor An Argument I Chanced To See A System of Letter-Writing Parable of the Lamp A Badger told a Rat The Infant Elsbet A Statuette The Hospital Mention A Scene An Emerald

THREE

Claus Valta Of the Secret City Parable of Life’s Wake Unnoticed Offenses To Knock at an Unknown Door Mutterings The Book A Fortune A Man Whose A Gift The Carriage Driver Three Visitors

EXCEPTED

A Measure

picnic in ten years’ time — 2004

~ ~ ~ 1 — Bestiary nos. 1–17

~ ~ ~ It Was a Later Century Arravelli’s “View of Loum,” 1542 The Privileged Girl Speaks Bestiary 1 A Set Piece Bestiary 2 A Turn That Season Bestiary 3 First Verse Parades A Calico Ascription Our Plots, Our Comfort Report from Our Lands Bestiary 4 Bestiary 5 EAST RIDING

ONE TWO THREE FOUR FIVE SIX SEVEN EIGHT NINE TEN

Grimoir or the hole beside the millstream Casuist’s Aside Missive in an Icelandic Room And If They Should Tell You Missive in an Icelandic Room 2 The First Mime Version Antonym of My Name Missive in an Icelandic Room 3 And that there is In a Glass Coffin Beneath Alexandria, in Alexander’s Dusty Skull, One Image Still Trembling Bestiary 8 Bestiary 9 Bestiary 10 Two Dogs A Bargain And in the Hollow Tree There Was a Note That Said: Bestiary 13 Forty-Year Soliloquy A Setting Bestiary 14 Bestiary 15 Bestiary 16 Bestiary 17

2 — Later Manual

Missive From a Room in Pau Asking Advice of the Scissors, in their Small Drawer Missive In a Room in Pau I appear at times Missive In a Room in Pau Missive From a Room in Pau Here is some information about turtles: Inventions 100th verse A Scolding Verse The Distressing Effect of Rumors Missive In a Room in Pau Balloon Diary, week of the pastoral revolt: The Well Missive from a Room in Pau Autoptic: 1 Autoptic: 2 Autoptic: 3 Autoptic 4: House Up-Hill Belie, Belie Austromancy I followed a Ribbon Autoptic: 7 Auturgy Refrain I was Awake a very long Time Autoptic: 8 Speech in a Meadow Speech in a Chamber Speech Confided Speech by a Window

amok book — 2006

1 2 — PERHAPS 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 — A LIE HAD BEEN SPREAD 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 — Method of Secret Committee 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61

pieter emily — 2006

Do Not Take the Low Road

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the early deaths of lubeck, brennan, harp & carr — 2006

the first the second the third

~ ~ ~ THE LETTER THE CLOTH

the fourth the fifth the sixth the seventh the eighth

the skin feat — 2008

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42

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