Years Later

by Djanikian, Gregory

• ISBN13: 9780887483165
• ISBN10: 088748316X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-03-01
• Publisher: Carnegie Mellon Univ Pr

Summary

It is Djanikian's sense of precision about distances, his awareness, his awareness of the riskiness of engaging nostalgia, his willingness to step beyond cleverness, which makes his new book so valuable.

Table of Contents

I
Something Unusual	11	(2)
Good Neighbors	13	(2)
Court Sense	15	(1)
Lac de Nom Perdu	16	(1)
The Trip	17	(2)
Over Lunch	19	(2)
Break Up	21	(2)
Artist's Return	23	(2)
Decorum	25	(2)
A Quarrel of pairs	27	(1)
Tulip Magnolia	28	(1)
Almost Enough	29	(2)
Seeing	31	(2)
Meteor	33	(1)
Absences	34	(5)
II
Fable	39	(1)
You Just Don't Get It	40	(2)
A Gift	42	(1)
Waiting For Her Again	43	(2)
Voyeur	45	(2)
An Episode	47	(2)
At Midnight Or So	49	(2)
Tourists of Dolor	51	(2)
At the End of the Day	53	(2)
Years Later	55	(1)
Neither Here Nor There	56	(1)
The Man Who Was Always Sad	57	(4)
III
The Engagement	61	(1)
After the Revolution	62	(2)
Histories	64	(1)
Apartment House at Evening	65	(1)
At the Edge of Something	66	(1)
The Physics of Traveling Away	67	(1)
In the Hospital Room	68	(2)
Lost Love	70	(1)
Brief Romance	71	(1)
Driving Toward the Border	72	(2)
Phone Call from Arizona	74	(2)
Just Because	76	(2)
Crazy Day	78	(1)
Anniversary Poem	79	(1)
Resonances	80