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Title Page Copyright Notice Dedication Contents “Curious Resemblances”: John Ashbery Translates French Prose: Introduction by Rosanne Wasserman and Eugene Richie Marie-Catherine d’Aulnoy (1650–1705)

The White Cat

Odilon Redon (1840–1916)

From To Oneself

Alfred Jarry (1873–1907)

Fear Visits Love

Raymond Roussel (1877–1933)

An Unpublished Note From Impressions of Africa Documents to Serve as an Outline

Note by John Ashbery Introduction to “In Havana” by John Ashbery In Havana First Document Second Document Third Document Fourth Document Fifth Document Sixth Document

Giorgio de Chirico (1888–1978)

On Silence Courbet The Engineer’s Son The Survivor of Navarino Selection One from Hebdomeros Selection Two from Hebdomeros That Evening Monsieur Dudron … It Was Something Like … Monsieur Dudron’s Adventure

Pierre Reverdy (1889–1960)

Haunted House

Antonin Artaud (1896–1948)

Henri Michaux (1899–1984)

Introduction to an Exhibition Catalogue

Michel Leiris (1901–1990)

Salvador Dalí (1904–1989)

The Incendiary Firemen De Kooning’s 300,000,000th Birthday

Jean Hélion (1904–1987)

Figure

Pierre Martory (1920–1998)

Introduction to Washington Square by Henry James

Raymond Mason (1922–2010)

Where Have All the Eggplants Gone?

Iannis Xenakis (1922–2001)

The Cosmic City

Jacques Dupin (1927–2012)

Texts for an Approach

Marcelin Pleynet (1933)

The Image of Meaning

Notes Appendix: Chronology of First Publication Dates of Translations Bibliography Acknowledgments Biographies of Translator and Editors Also by John Ashbery Permissions Acknowledgments Copyright