Sorescu (1936-1996) was a cheerfully melancholic comic genius, and one of the most original voices in Romanian literature. This book of wryly quizzical poems-his testament not just to human mortality and pain but to resistance and creative transforma

ADAM J. SORKIN: Translator's Foreword	9	(6)
Someone	15	(1)
Loneliness	16	(1)
The Bridge	17	(1)
Stop	18	(1)
Lord!	19	(1)
Inhabited Liver	20	(1)
The Masks	21	(1)
Reisefieber	22	(1)
The Departed	23	(1)
A Ladder to the Sky	24	(1)
Ascites	25	(1)
Spectator	26	(1)
'I'm on life's side!'	27	(1)
Pure Pain	28	(1)
Prometheus	29	(1)
'Why am I the one who must enter this hospital?'	30	(1)
Forerunners	31	(1)
Vocal Extinction	32	(1)
'What hurts the worst'	33	(1)
The Emissary of the Blue Sea	34	(1)
'I look so dreadful'	35	(1)
Wake	36	(1)
The Cowardly Coffin	37	(2)
Balance Sheet	39	(1)
Author	40	(1)
The Book of the Dead	41	(1)
The Fall Into Myself	42	(1)
Genetic Dowry	43	(1)
Prometheus Unwell	44	(1)
Prayer	45	(1)
Almost a Pantomime	46	(1)
Concerning the Halo	47	(2)
The Birds	49	(1)
At the Front	50	(2)
Ancestors	52	(1)
The Three Kingdoms	53	(1)
First Fall	54	(1)
The One Who Never Shows His Face	55	(1)
I Squeeze through the Crowd	56	(1)
Don't Hit	57	(1)
Job	58	(1)
I've become accustomed to sleeping with my eyes open wide'	59	(1)
I Haven't the Least Idea	60	(1)
Don't Ask Me What Day Today Is	61	(1)
'Unable to sleep'	62	(1)
'Whoever sees me hugging the trees'	63	(1)
The Host of Hell	64	(2)
My Poor Skin	66	(1)
'I have to sip water after each word I speak'	67	(1)
'With an immense effort of will I get out of bed'	68	(1)
Elegy	69	(1)
Then	70	(1)
Guilt	71	(1)
A Glimmer	72	(1)
The Birches	73	(1)
My Glasses	74	(1)
A Thought for the Greek	75	(1)
The Dragon	76	(1)
'Oh, how heavy my coat is'	77	(1)
Guilt	78	(1)
The Wise Man	79	(1)
'So this is it'	80	(1)
Spirit	81	(1)
'God, it's not good sportsmanship'	82	(1)
The Ram with Coiled Horns	83	(1)
Departure	84	(1)
Separation from Myself	85	(1)
Experiment	86	(1)
A Turn for the Better	87	(1)
Prayer of the Heart	88	(1)
'In my prayers I've reached the point'	89	(1)
'I've turned my subconscious toward the plus'	90	(1)
News	91	(1)
The Switch	92	(1)
'I am reminded of all our dogs'	93	(1)
Addenda	94	(2)
Note on the translators	96

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