The Eyes

by Paterson, Don

• ISBN13: 9780571200559
• ISBN10: 0571200559
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-11-01
• Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux

Summary

In The Eyes, Don Paterson has used the work of the great Spanish poet Antonio Machado (1875-1939) to create what might be called a spiritual portrait. Lying somewhere between translation and imitation, these poems show Machado to have possessed a sensibility and philosophical bent strikingly pertinent to the problems of our own time. The Eyes is as ingenious in its conception and as direct in its impact as anything Don Paterson has ever written.

Table of Contents

Advice	3	(1)
Anacreontic	4	(1)
To Emiliano Barral	5	(1)
A Memory of Childhood	6	(1)
Chords	7	(1)
Dream	8	(1)
The Eyes	9	(1)
Profession of Faith	10	(1)
Gloss	11	(1)
Guadarrama	12	(1)
An Interrogation	13	(1)
Three Lyrics	14	(1)
Marginal Notes	15	(2)
Meditation	17	(1)
from New Songs	18	(2)
Nothing	20	(1)
from One Day's Poem	21	(5)
Paradoxes	26	(1)
Poem	27	(1)
Poetry	28	(1)
Promethean	29	(1)
Proverbs	30	(8)
Road	38	(1)
The Reply	39	(1)
Revenant	40	(1)
Ricochet	41	(1)
Seeing	42	(1)
Siesta	43	(1)
Sigh	44	(1)
Sleep	45	(1)
Song	46	(1)
3 O'clock	47	(1)
The Time	48	(1)
Tryst	49	(1)
The Visit	50	(1)
The Waterwheel	51	(1)
Two Winter Poems	52	(1)
The Work	53	(1)
To the Great Zero	54	(1)
Afterword	55