Reversible Monuments by Reid, Alastair, Wiegers, Michael, de la Torre, Monica -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Title Page Note to Reader Contents Preface Introduction MARÍA BARANDA

-Epistle of the Shipwreck -The weddings of flowers take place upon the stigma. Pollen unfastens when aurora begins, and in a moment life redeems itself and then withdraws. -With only two or three stamens, masculine flowers burst. They rise from their own depths, glistening and moist. Loosely turning over, they bring themselves up under the sky midway between light and shadow. Voiceless they wilt, sluggish they die. -Ecstasy

EFRAÍN BARTOLOMÉ

Tattoos in the Water Intermezzo with Five Crocodiles The Ill-fated Water

ALBERTO BLANCO

Theory of Light Quantum Theory Set Theory Theory of Fractals The Accuracy of the Scale Metamorphosis of a Chair Three States and Three Kingdoms Maps

CARMEN BOULLOSA

Elysian Garden

CORAL BRACHO

In This Warm Dark Mosque Fish of Fleeting Skin From This Light A Stone in the Water of Sanity Upon It They Gently Reflect The Hypothetical Spectator Stone in the Sand The Mysteries of Touch The Allure of Forms

BÚFFALO CONDE

Flower of Gold Time for Trees to Dance Give Away the Lie

ELSA CROSS

Monsoon Ivy Mandap Seva Fabulation Banyan Pavilion Words Form Epiphany Balancing Act Shakti

ALFONSO D’AQUINO

Hotel Amorous The Wedding Metempsychosis of the Dog “The sun opens its lips and says to us” The Opened Orange of Light Brief Viper

ANTONIO DELTORO

Cartography Eggs Laid by a Tiger Sunday Anesthesia Voyage Pillows Contemporaries Secondhand Book Neighbors The Shy Ones

GERARDO DENIZ

Muse Meditate Ignorance The Authoritarian School and How a Respectable Literary Genre Was Born. Auditor Christmas Childish Classified Ads Merlin Ark Map Act Oedipus to the Third Power Superior

JORGE FERNÁNDEZ GRANADOS

Minimal Ulysses The Perfumist Specters The Promised Land Account of the Marvels Whispered in a Mannequin’s Ear

MALVA FLORES

Nomad House (excerpts) Turbid Diction (excerpts)

GLORIA GERVITZ

Migrations (excerpt)

FRANCISCO HERNÁNDEZ

On How Robert Schumann Was Defeated by Demons

CLAUDIA HERNÁNDEZ DE VALLE-ARIZPE

Hemicránea (excerpts)

DAVID HUERTA

Thirteen Propositions against Trivial Love Machinery Prayer for August 21 Pathological Beings Bolero at Armageddon Summer Mist The Cauldron Cancellation of a Construction Project Descent A Baroque Cell Light from Parallel Worlds Deck of Cards

PURA LÓPEZ COLOMÉ

Dramatis Personae Heartache The Cubs Death of the Kiss

TEDI LÓPEZ MILLS

And Never Did... My Voice Faithful as a Shadow The Dead Weight of the Land An Ending by Pound On Reading Virgil Letter Advertisement

ERNESTO LUMBRERAS

“The sky” (I) Overflowing Willow Reunion of Cellos Good-for-nothings on a White Corner Keys of the Saint A Green Hill, a Green Hill The Horizon Burns Regression of the Willow Where to? “The sky” (II)

EDUARDO MILÁN

“I mean you as though referring to two furies because” “Rabbit-foot effectiveness, nonentity of” “Now that we’re nothing, for example” “I believe in nothing, I collaborate, I assist” “Riddle me what marionettes are” “I let myself be led because I let loose” Five (excerpt) “We can’t go on like this: be truthful, empty” “Do you care to remedy the faces of the gods?” “One’s alone in this: making masks” “He sends word for them not to be in His place” “What chorus?”

FABIO MORÁBITO

Sponge Scissors Piazza Gimma “I do not wish, in spite of all” “I’ve forgotten the words” “Elephants are born old” “Maps are drawn on Sundays” “I’ve never been in love enough” “Compared to the condos of the living”

JOSUÉ RAMÍREZ

Tepozán Topography Mechanical Heart Of Fiction and Things

JUAN GREGORIO REGINO

Cantares

JOSÉ LUIS RIVAS

Red Tide Thalassa A Season of Paradise A Knack for Slipping Away River 1

FRANCISCO SEGOVIA

Evening Star Premonition Chrysalis There Where You Sleep... Promise We Never Come It Isn’t Gentleness Vegetal Animus Clarity of Silence

PEDRO SERRANO

Pool Bullfight Vertigo Rosary Inventory Ticklish Moments Boundary Flying Beacon Treadmill

VÍCTOR TERÁN

It Was Early Evening In the Palm of My Hand Indecision Six Variations on Love It’s Over

NATALIA TOLEDO

Na Tacha Zenaida Olga’s House Temple Silly Ghost Na Aurea Marcelina Na Hermila Limón Cielo Min Revelation Agrícola Bertha Beninu Na Victórica Litru Healers Natalia The Shadow That Draws the Light

MANUEL ULACIA

On the Beach Hampstead Heath Return to the City Conrail Wax Museum In the Steam Bath Aegean Sea Visit to Turk’s Head Pub In the Ritz at Meknes Arabian Knight Tenochtitlán Blues

VERONICA VOLKOW

Arcana IV:The Emperor Arcana VIII: Justice Arcana X: Fortune Arcana XII: The Hanged Man The Story of the Labyrinth Wands The Valley of Zapata

About the Translators Acknowledgments Copyright Special Thanks

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