The Next Bend in the Road

Acknowledgments

I THE SEND-OFF
The Send-Off
Days of the Comet
The Alhambra
The Tunnel
April 4, 1968
In the White Swan Hotel, Guangzhou
The Kites
Greek Restaurants
Cézanne
Care
Kafka's Drawings
The Realm of Spirit
The Chase
Before a Duel
Papyrus
The Drought
The Rape of Nanking
The Glare
Gisèle Lestrange
The Meadow
Due North
The Dream

II THE NECT BEND IN THE ROAD
The Next Bend in the Road
Tsvetayeva's Letters
The Curvature of Earth
"The Earthquake in Chile"
Reading
The New Year
Noa-Noa
The End of History
The Ring
A Night at the Opera
The Notebook
The Immortals
The Visitor from the Future
When You Enter the Room
The Essence of Poetry
Full Moonlight
The Drowned and the Saved
Outskirts of Berlin, May 1998
Aubade
Beauty Regardless
To Lily, a Calico Cat Who Died Before her Time
The Wound

III A SUMMER NIGHT
The First Morning
The Flower
Last Visit from Ian Hamiliton
The Hilltop
In Seattle
The Yellow Dress
The Thirty Years War
Freud's Sacrifice
Wittenstein on Green
Fear and Trembling
For F.T.C.
Look Around
Marine
A Journey
"Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe"
"Flesh"
Yellow Crane Tower
The Fountain
A Summer Night
The Smoke-Brush
Song
The Winds of Dawn


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