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Cover Description Title Page Contents Foreword (1990) by IAN MILNER BEFORE

from DAY DUTY (1958) Cinderella Graves of prisoners The flypaper Harbour In the microscope Pathology Casualty from ACHILLES AND THE TORTOISE (1960) Night in the streets Napoleon The Corporal who killed Archimedes Death in the evening Five minutes after the air raid Explosion Home I Voices in the landscape from PRIMER (1961) Alphabet A history lesson The sick primer Midday The rain at night The forest Haul of fish Spice The fly Shooting galleries Textbook of a dead language The village green Polonius Love Bones The geology of man Wings A helping hand Ode to joy from GO AND OPEN THE DOOR (1961) The door Evening idyll with a protoplasm A few very clever people The teacher The best room, or interpretation of a poem Žito the magician Inventions Merry-go-round Poem technology The bell A dog in the quarry from THE SO-CALLED HEART (1963) Riders Discobolus The new house On the building site of a hostel Man cursing the sea The cat Fog Night at the observatory Prince Hamlet’s milk tooth Love in August And what’s new What the heart is like Heart failure from TOTALLY UNSYSTEMATIC ZOOLOGY (1963) The end of the world Death of a sparrow Clowns A boy’s head from WHERE THE BLOOD FLOWS (1963) Injection Suffering Truth Reality from ALTHOUGH (1969) Two The gift of speech Oxidation The root of the matter Wisdom Encyclopaedia: sum of all knowledge Annunciation We who laughed Lyric mood Anatomy of a leap into the void The Prague of Jan Palach Without title Although from CONCRETE (1970) Subway station Bull fight Planet The jesters

AFTER

ON THE CONTRARY (1971-82) Brief reflection on cats growing in trees Brief reflection on accuracy Brief reflection on the theory of relativity Brief reflection on the word Pain Brief reflection on an old woman with a barrow Brief reflection on Johnny Brief reflection on Charlemagne Brief reflection on cracks Brief reflection on gargoyles Brief reflection on killing the Christmas carp Brief reflection on laughter Brief reflection on the Flood Brief reflection on test-tubes Brief reflection on light The Minotaur’s thoughts on poetry Brief reflection on maps Brief reflection on death Brief reflection on childhood Brief reflection on fence Brief reflection on eyes Brief reflection on the sun Brief reflection on dwarfs The dangers of the night Attempted assassination Theatre The Minotaur’s loneliness Minotaurus Faber The Minotaur on love On Sisyphus On Daedalus The philosophy of autumn The old people’s garden Whaling Homer On the origin of football On the origin of 6pm At home Dinner A philosophy of encounters Elsewhere On the origin of the contrary On the origin of memory On the origin of full power Conversation with a poet INTERFERON, OR ON THEATRE (1983-86) The soul Burning Sunday United Flight 1011 Dreams The last night bus A lecture on arthropods Immanuel Kant Biodrama Distant howling Jewish cemetery at Olšany, Kafka’s grave, April, a sunny day When the bees fell silent The dead Half a hedgehog Interferon Collision Landscapes Memo to a pre-school-age daughter The man who wants to be himself A well-read man or A meeting with Russell Edson A lecture on diseases Swans in flight Teeth The cast The beginnings of the puppet theatre Punch, the Princess, Johnny and other children watch the cheerful play of the kittens Sir Rudolph, the knight Faustus Marguerite In the box Princesses The sorcerer’s lament Punch’s dream How we played the Gilgamesh epic The autumnal bus The Angel of Death Crucifix Supper à la Russell Edson Sand game Lenora Door II Questioning Fairy tales Super-Aesop VANISHING LUNG SYNDROME (1990) Syncope 1751 What else Yoga Great ancestors Not for sale Gardeners Night calamities Parasite Skinning Symptom La Brea Skeletons Fish Funerals From the travels of Abigdor Karo The steam car Glass The pedestrian: Lower West Side, New York Haemophilia / Los Angeles They asked the gods Nineveh A small town in the Sonora Desert Syndrome Parallels Syndrome Incense Syndrome Wenceslas Square Syndrome The Stiff Man Syndrome Kuru, or the Smiling Death Syndrome Vanishing Lung Syndrome Crush Syndrome Job’s Syndrome Diagnoses Animal rights The festival Synapse Heart transplant The cloud shepherd of Hans Arp Landscape with poets Piety The sun of hope The clock Spacetime Formula One The fall from the green frog from SUPPOSED TO FLY (1994) The bird Certificate of baptism The roof over our head Behind the house The geese End of the game A history of the world How to paint a perfect Christmas Liturgy Magnetism Spinal cord Two in a landscape Consent Boy catching butterflies We’ll go up the tower Herbarium The bomb The fall of Troy Pietà The searching tram The map of Europe The duties of a dustbin Tender souls in tough bodies Executions Central cemetery Reading Requiem Good King Wenceslases THE RAMPAGE (1997) 1 The Wall The wall in the corner by the stairs Home Love, as they say Duties of one who left Whale songs My mother learns Spanish Anatomy of January Anatomy of September Anatomy of November The end of the week The day of the Pollyanna 2 Freedom Freedom Scene with fiddlers At last The moth Crowd-walkers The earth is shrinking While fleeing The journey Not-so-brief reflection on the Edict The Goddess of Victory 3 The Pied Pipers The Pied Pipers Aloof A Moravian castle Pompeii The British Museum The Ten Commandments Literary bash The autumn orchard Universe of the mouse 4 Masterpiece Masterpiece Ganesha The earliest angels Resurrecting Anything about God The statue of the master The teaching of the master Elementary school field trip to the dinosaur exhibit The darkness The silence 5 The Rampage The rampage Head-Smashed-In The slaughterhouse Anatomy of July Anatomy of December Anencephaly Metaphysics Of course Intensive care unit The birth of Sisyphus

Index of titles and first lines

A, B, C D, E, F G, H, I J, K, L M, N, O P, Q, R S, T, U V, W, X Y, Z

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