Astonishing World: The Selected Poems of Angel Gonzalez, 1956 to 1986 Book

	Introduction	11
	Harsh World	19
	Before I Could Call Myself Angel Gonzalez	21
	Here, Madrid, 1954	23
	Birthday	25
	Death in the Evening	27
	I Look at My Hand	29
	I Come from War	33
	Love Dressed in White	35
	Human Geography	37
	To Some Poets	39
	Through Here a River Passes	41
	Autumn Sent	43
	Dogs Against the Moon	45
	Miracle of the Light	47
	City	49
	The Defeated One	53
	Astonishing World	55
	The Battlefield	57
	Hope	61
	Of Two Words Now Made Clear	63
	Yesterday	65
	Sunday	69
	Winter	73
	The Future	75
	The Birthday of Love	79
	December	81
	Letter without Good-bye	85
	Symbol	89
	Shepherd of Winds	93
	Lessons of Things	97
	Summer in Slumville	103
	This Moment	107
	Pearl of the Antilles	109
	Cemetery in Colliure	115
	Elected by Acclamation	119
	The Lesson of Literature	121
	The Word	127
	Words Almost Forgotten	133
	That's Enough for Me	137
	Useless Words	141
	Inventory of Places Propitious for Love	147
	Public Garden with Particular Legs	149
	On Saturday, the Prostitutes Get Up...	153
	Residential Zone	157
	Park for the Dead	161
	The Mall	165
	Opulent Civilization	167
	Plaza with Towers and Palaces	171
	Preamble to Silence	175
	Zero City	177
	Second Evocation	181
	First Evocation	185
	Sometimes	191
	Whatever You Want	193
	I Snack on Some Afternoons	195
	My Profound Vocation	197
	Today	199
	Of the Field or Sea	203
	Magic Realism	207
	Science as Affliction	211
	Words Taken from a Painting by Jose Hernandez	213
	Sonata for Violin Solo	221
	The Music in the Walls Reverberates	223
	Sometimes, in October, That's What Happens	225
	I Am Bartok of Everything	227
	Horoscope for a Forgotten Dictator	229
	Again	231
	Poetics	233
	Order	235
	Counter-Order	237
	To Poetry	239
	Ode to the New Bards	241
	A Traveler's Notes	245
	A Fall Day, Texas	251
	Acoma, New Mexico, December, 5:15 P.M.	253
	The Day Has Gone	257
	The Days Were Like That	259
	Twilight, Albuquerque, Summer	261
	Twilight, Albuquerque, Fall	263
	Twilight, Albuquerque, Winter	265
	The So-Called Twilight	267
	The Scandalous Rose	269
	Revelation	271
	The Christ of Velazquez	273
	Diatribe Against the Dead	275
	That River Ran Backwards	277
	Erudites on Campus	279
	So it Seems	281
	Seriously	285
	Angel Gonzalez: A Chronology	287