Fading Contact

by Lalic, Ivan V; Jones, Francis R

• ISBN13: 9780856462818
• ISBN10: 0856462810
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-06-01
• Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd.

Summary

Middle-period masterwork by the great Serbo-Croat poet, in English translation.

Author Biography

Born in 1931, Lalic studied law in Zagreb, where he first began to publish poetry. He died in 1996. Born in 1955, Francis R. Jones lectures in linguistics at the University of Newcastle in England.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 9
Orphic	p. 21
The Gullwatcher	p. 23
Winter Sea	p. 24
Marine III	p. 25
Marine IV	p. 26
Marine V	p. 27
Genius Loci	p. 28
Hail, Morning	p. 29
Fiesole, Rain	p. 30
Mount Vidov	p. 31
Belgrade from Old Photographs: 1 A varnished wooden box, the colour of wild honey...	p. 35
Belgrade from Old Photographs: 2 But there's still the possibility...	p. 37
Belgrade from Old Photographs: 3 In a fossil of light from 1865...	p. 38
Filling Station	p. 41
Palazzo del te	p. 42
A Trip to Torcello	p. 43
The Fig Tree	p. 44
Cantico delle creature	p. 45
Written in Szentendre	p. 46
Military Cemetery	p. 47
Astrapa	p. 49
Diocletian's Morning Walk	p. 50
Reading Tacitus	p. 51
Letter to John Berryman on Hearing the News of His Death	p. 52
Mozart's Grave	p. 54
Athos in Five Songs: Daphne	p. 57
Athos in Five Songs: Karyes	p. 58
Athos in Five Songs: Iviron	p. 59
Athos in Five Songs: On the Way to Esphigmenou	p. 60
Athos in Five Songs: Byzantium VIII, or Chilandari	p. 61
To the Fates	p. 65
Terrace	p. 66
Insomnia	p. 67
Cassiopeia	p. 68
Count the Mirrors	p. 69
Of Water	p. 70
Mnemosyne: 1 Autumn arrives like a slap in the face, on the threshold...	p. 75
Mnemosyne: 2 Water is only a swifter image of earth...	p. 76
Mnemosyne: 3 A trained eye can recognize the unhealed humus...	p. 77
Mnemosyne: 4 They eat oblivion with their bread, the blind who dream...	p. 78
Byzantium IX	p. 81
Of Proportions	p. 82
Broadcast	p. 83
Byzantium X	p. 84
To Sons Growing Up	p. 85
Notes on the Poems	p. 87
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