Hands Behind My Back

by Sorescu, Marin; Dragnea, Gabriela; Friebert, Stuart; Varga, Adriana; Heaney, Seamus

• ISBN13: 9780932440587
• ISBN10: 0932440584
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1991-07-01
• Publisher: Field Translations Series

Summary

"If anybody except a poet were saying the things Sorescu says in his poems, he or she would be found insane. But this is what poetry should be doing, putting this kind of material into rational form." (Russell Edson) In this collection the Romanian's p

Table of Contents

Introduction	9	(10)
After the Creation
After the Creation	19	(1)
Between Stars	20	(2)
Getting Used to Your Name	22	(2)
Giddyup!	24	(2)
Hide and Seek	26	(2)
Under the Door	28	(2)
And Everything Slips Easily Away ...	30	(2)
Apparition	32	(3)
The House	35	(2)
Lightning Passed ...	37	(2)
Segment	39	(1)
Burglars	40	(2)
Glimmer	42	(1)
Prayer	43	(2)
My Soul, You're Good at Everything	45	(1)
Elegy	46	(3)
Subjectivism
Subjectivism	49	(1)
Spiral	50	(1)
Orbit	51	(1)
Game	52	(1)
Paintings	53	(3)
The Path	56	(2)
Pliers	58	(2)
Water of Life, Water of Death	60	(1)
About You	61	(2)
Perspective	63	(1)
Group	64	(2)
Launching	66	(2)
I Can't Pass onto Anyone	68	(2)
I Stopped Right by the Tragic	70	(5)
Where We Forget
Where We Forget	75	(1)
Eyelashes	76	(1)
Reminiscences	77	(1)
Precaution	78	(1)
Dream	79	(2)
Signs	81	(1)
The Sacred Fire	82	(1)
Rift	83	(2)
Ouch! Ouch!	85	(2)
Mourning	87	(2)
Matinal	89	(1)
Let's Help	90	(1)
Look	91	(1)
In the Sky	92	(2)
Passport	94	(1)
Pedestrian	95	(2)
Egg	97	(1)
Death Is a Miracle Too	98	(1)
Descent	99	(1)
Bocca Di Leone	100	(2)
Fire and Water	102	(2)
Laurel	104	(2)
Hymn	106	(3)
History As Therapy
History As Therapy	109	(1)
Pure Conversation with a Chinese Character	110	(4)
Fossil Hittite	114	(1)
Cognition	115	(1)
Cavafy	116	(1)
Good Advice	117	(2)
The Hermit	119	(1)
Lazarus' Resurrection	120	(1)
The Ground	121	(2)
Laocoon	123	(1)
Fresco	124	(2)
Village Museum	126	(3)
Used Bookseller	129	(2)
Statue	131	(1)
Ulysses	132	(2)
Troy	134	(1)
Shakespeare	135	(2)
Hamlet, In Search	137	(1)
Poisoned	138	(1)
Chess	139	(2)
The Executioner with Seven Hands and the Victim with Seven Heads	141	(4)
Miracle
Miracle	145	(1)
Minus the Sea	146	(1)
The Mountains	147	(2)
Secret Transfusion	149	(1)
Pueblo	150	(1)
The Pluperfect	151	(1)
Insight	152	(1)
For the Birds Who've Disappeared	153	(1)
With Their Fingertips	154	(1)
The Match	155	(2)
The Snail	157	(1)
Oscillations	158	(1)
A Cat	159	(1)
Hyena	160	(1)
Whim	161	(2)
Alphabet	163	(1)
As If	164	(2)
Prayer II	166