The Stillness of the World Before Bach: Poetry

by Gustafsson, Lars

• ISBN13: 9780811210584
• ISBN10: 0811210588
• Edition: 00
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1988-04-17
• Publisher: New Directions

Table of Contents

Editorial Note	viii
Introduction	ix
Christopher Middleton
from The Balloonists / Ballongfararna (1962)
After Rain [P.M.]	1	(1)
In the Hague [R.F.]	2	(1)
Fire and Air Machine [H.W.]	3	(1)
The Balloonists [P.M.]	4	(2)
from A Morning in Sweden / En formiddag in Sverige (1963)
Summer Song [Y.L.S.]	6	(2)
In Time [R.F.]	8	(1)
Beyond Irony [R.F.]	9	(1)
The Conditions [R.F.]	10	(1)
The Fortress [R.F.]	11	(2)
The Dog [P.M.]	13	(1)
from Journey to the Center of the Earth / En reas till jordens medelpunkt (1966)
Snow [P.M.]	14	(1)
A Landscape [P.M.]	15	(5)
from A Journey to the Center of the Earth [R.F.]	20	(2)
Bombus terrestris [R.F.]	22	(2)
The Machines [H.W.]	24	(2)
Discussions [C.M.]	26	(2)
The Bridges of Konigsberg [C.M.]	28	(1)
A Story from Russia [C.M.]	29	(1)
from The Wright Brothers Look for Kitty Hawk / Broderna Wright uppsoker Kitty Hawk (1968)
The Living and the Dead [H.W.]	30	(1)
Elegy [P.M.]	31	(1)
Three Poems from the New World [R.F.]	32	(3)
Concert for Mechanical Blowers [R.F.]	35	(2)
On the Deepest Sounds [C.M.]	37	(1)
Notes on the 1860s [C.M.]	38	(1)
from Declaration of Love to a Sephardic Lady / Karleksforklaring till en sefardisk dam (1970)
Events in 1939-An Episode in Berlin-Symphonie
Phantastique-The Story of the Great Drawing Shaft at
Blankstoten-Pain Is a Fire . . . [R.F.]	39	(21)
from Warm Rooms and Cold / Varma rum och kalla (1972)
Warm Rooms and Cold [Y.L.S.]	60	(1)
Song of Equilibrium [Y.L.S.]	61	(2)
The Discords [Y.L.S.]	63	(2)
Darkness [Y.L.S.]	65	(1)
Poem on Revisionism [P.M.]	65	(1)
Lines for the Prince of Venosa [Y.L.S.]	66	(6)
San Francisco Sailing on Under the Earth [Y.L.S.]	72	(2)
Brief Treatise on Seeing and Being Seen [Y.L.S.]	74	(2)
from Sonnets / Sonetter (1977)
Sonnet I: The Desert by Rio Grande [Y.L.S.]	76	(1)
Sonnet XVI [P.M.]	77	(1)
Sonnet XVII [P.M.]	78	(1)
Sonnet XXIII [P.M.]	79	(1)
Sonnet XXVIII [P.M.]	80	(1)
Sestina on a Successful Volley [Y.L.S.]	81	(2)
Sestina (from Sonnets, XXII) [Y.L.S.]	83	(2)
from Artesian Wells Cartesian Dreams / Artesiska brunnar cartesianska drommar (1980)
Elegy for a Dead Labrador [Y.L.S.]	85	(2)
Song of the Depths of the World, the Depths of the Eye, the Brevity of Life [Y.L.S.]	87	(3)
Ballad of the Dogs [P.M.]	90	(2)
Ballad on the Stone Forest in Yunnan [P.M.]	92	(3)
from The Stillness of the World Before Bach / Varldens tystnad fore Bach (1983)
The Stillness of the World Before Bach [P.M.]	95	(1)
Eel and Well [P.M.]	96	(1)
On Certain Evenings ... [P.M.]	96	(1)
Streams of Particles [P.M.]	97	(1)
The Chinese Painter ... [P.M.]	97	(1)
A Wind in Texas [P.M.]	98	(1)
The Decisive Battle ... [P.M.]	98	(1)
from Birds / Faglarna (1984)
Winter in a Westphalian Village [C.M.]	99	(1)
On the Speed of Swallows [C.M.]	100	(1)
Fragment [C.M.]	101	(1)
La Salpetriere: April 1980 [C.M.]	102	(1)
Looking at a Portrait of Lou Andreas-Salome [C.M.]	103	(1)
On All That Glides in the Air [C.M.]	104	(2)
Flight of Cranes over Skane at Dawn in April [C.M.]	106	(1)
The Doge [P.M.]	107	(1)
The Starred Sky ... [P.M.]	108	(1)
The Birds: Canal Landscape with Ten Locks, in the Dutch Manner [C.M.]	109	(1)
Birdsong, Echo of the Original Paradise [C.M.]	110	(1)
Lot's Wife [C.M.]	111	(1)
Border Zone, Minefield, Snow East of Bebra [C.M.]	112	(1)
Placenta [C.M.]	113	(1)
The Cherry Tree [C.M.]	113	(1)
The Pansies [C.M.]	114	(1)
Hunting Dogs [C.M.]	114	(1)
Comparison Between Insect Song and Bird Song [C.M.]	114	(1)
The Didapper [P.M.]	115	(1)
The Crows [P.M.]	116
June Night [C.M.]	116