Metropolis

by Dunlop, Rishma

• ISBN13: 9781894469241
• ISBN10: 1894469240
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-10-07
• Publisher: Litdistco

Summary

In a city ruled by pigeons and doves I began to see that citizens moved mysteriously in the streets as if in a silent movie. I wanted to speak out to them but the world was deafened by the cries of birds. By the flap of wings. I began to imagine voices that tasted of colors and flavors. So you could describe sound to the deaf, a voice that was like vanilla, or orange, a voice that smelled like brandy. I would count the birds in the square at City Hall as if some numerical sequencing would be a code to explain the numbers I have memorized. The phone numbers of the dead. Sometimes I dial those numbers, profess my love to anyone who picks up the receiver. Catalogue of memories in my hands, thickening in spiral notebooks. The city offers me a biography of rain, every vowel beating against its granite heart. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Seeing	11	(2)
Testament	13	(1)
Still Life	14	(1)
City of Madness and Love	15	(3)
Small things	18	(2)
Epithalamium	20	(2)
The New Republic	22	(2)
Memory Palace	24	(1)
Sanctum	25	(1)
Agnus Dei	26	(3)
Acqua Alta	29	(2)
Asylum Garden	31	(1)
Dream Sequence When the Moon is Raining	32	(2)
Inauguratio	34	(4)
The Blue Hour	38	(1)
Psalm	39	(1)
Film Noir	40	(1)
In the madhouse	41	(1)
Metropolis	42	(13)
Notes	55	(2)
Acknowledgements	57