Reversible Monuments: Contemporary Mexican Poetry Book

	Preface	3
	Introduction	7
	Epistle of the Shipwreck	17
	The weddings of flowers take place upon the stigma. Pollen unfastens when aurora begins, and in a moment life redeems itself and then withdraws	29
	With only two or three stamens, masculine flowers burst. They rise from their own depths, glistening and moist. Loosely turning over, they bring themselves up under the sky midway between light and shadow. Voiceless they wilt, sluggish they die	31
	Ecstasy	33
	Tattoos in the Water	39
	Intermezzo with Five Crocodiles	45
	The Ill-fated Water	47
	Theory of Light	53
	Quantum Theory	55
	Set Theory	57
	Theory of Fractals	59
	The Accuracy of the Scale	59
	Metamorphosis of a Chair	69
	Three States and Three Kingdoms	73
	Maps	75
	Elysian Garden	83
	In This Warm Dark Mosque	109
	Fish of Fleeting Skin	113
	From This Light	119
	A Stone in the Water of Sanity	121
	Upon It They Gently Reflect	123
	The Hypothetical Spectator	123
	Stone in the Sand	127
	The Mysteries of Touch	127
	The Allure of Forms	129
	Flower of Gold	131
	Time for Trees to Dance	131
	Give Away the Lie	133
	Monsoon	135
	Ivy	137
	Mandap	139
	Seva	143
	Fabulation	145
	Banyan	147
	Pavilion	147
	Words	149
	Form	151
	Epiphany	151
	Balancing Act	153
	Shakti	153
	Hotel	159
	Amorous	161
	The Wedding	163
	Metempsychosis of the Dog	165
	"The sun opens its lips and says to us"	167
	The Opened Orange of Light	167
	Brief Viper	179
	Cartography	191
	Eggs Laid by a Tiger	193
	Sunday	195
	Anesthesia	195
	Voyage	197
	Pillows	199
	Contemporaries	199
	Secondhand Book	201
	Neighbors	201
	The Shy Ones	203
	Muse	207
	Meditate	209
	Ignorance	209
	The Authoritarian School and How a Respectable Literary Genre Was Born	211
	Auditor	213
	Christmas	215
	Childish	217
	Classified Ads	217
	Merlin	219
	Ark	219
	Map	221
	Act	221
	Oedipus to the Third Power	223
	Superior	227
	Minimal Ulysses	229
	The Perfumist	233
	Specters	237
	The Promised Land	241
	Account of the Marvels Whispered in a Mannequin's Ear	243
	Nomad House	251
	Turbid Diction	261
	Migrations	263
	On How Robert Schumann Was Defeated by Demons	281
	Hemicranea	305
	Thirteen Propositions against Trivial Love	317
	Machinery	323
	Prayer for August 21	325
	Pathological Beings	329
	Bolero at Armageddon	329
	Summer Mist	331
	The Cauldron	331
	Cancellation of a Construction Project	335
	Descent	335
	A Baroque Cell	337
	Light from Parallel Worlds	339
	Deck of Cards	341
	Dramatis Personae	343
	Heartache	345
	The Cubs	345
	Death of the Kiss	351
	And Never Did ...	365
	My Voice Faithful as a Shadow	369
	The Dead Weight of the Land	371
	An Ending by Pound	373
	On Reading Virgil	375
	Letter	381
	Advertisement	387
	"The sky" (I)	391
	Overflowing Willow	393
	Reunion of Cellos	393
	Good-for-nothings on a White Corner	395
	Keys of the Saint	395
	A Green Hill, a Green Hill	397
	The Horizon Burns	397
	Regression of the Willow	397
	Where to?	401
	"The sky" (II)	403
	"I mean you as though referring to two furies because"	413
	"Rabbit-foot effectiveness, nonentity of"	413
	"Now that we're nothing, for example"	415
	"I believe in nothing, I collaborate, I assist"	415
	"Riddle me what marionettes are"	417
	"I let myself be led because I let loose"	417
	Five	419
	"We can't go on like this: be truthful, empty"	421
	"Do you care to remedy the faces of the gods?"	423
	"One's alone in this: making masks"	423
	"He sends word for them not to be in His place"	425
	"What chorus?"	425
	Sponge	429
	Scissors	433
	Piazza Gimma	439
	"I do not wish, in spite of all"	439
	"I've forgotten the words"	441
	"Elephants are born old"	443
	"Maps are drawn on Sundays"	445
	"I've never been in love enough"	449
	"Compared to the condos of the living"	451
	Tepozan	457
	Topography	463
	Mechanical Heart	463
	Of Fiction and Things	473
	Cantares	479
	Red Tide	501
	Thalassa	503
	A Season of Paradise	507
	A Knack for Slipping Away	517
	River 1	519
	Evening Star	527
	Premonition	531
	Chrysalis	531
	There Where You Sleep ...	533
	Promise	535
	We Never Come	537
	It Isn't Gentleness	537
	Vegetal Animus	537
	Clarity of Silence	541
	Pool	543
	Bullfight	543
	Vertigo	545
	Rosary	545
	Inventory	547
	Ticklish Moments	549
	Boundary	549
	Flying	553
	Beacon	553
	Treadmill	555
	It Was Early Evening	559
	In the Palm of My Hand	561
	Indecision	561
	Six Variations on Love	563
	It's Over	565
	Na Tacha	569
	Zenaida	569
	Olga's House	571
	Temple	571
	Silly Ghost	573
	Na Aurea	573
	Marcelina	575
	Na Hermila Limon	575
	Cielo Min	577
	Revelation	577
	Agricola	579
	Bertha Beninu	579
	Na Victoria Litru	581
	Healers	581
	Natalia	583
	The Shadow That Draws the Light	583
	On the Beach	585
	Hampstead Heath	585
	Return to the City	587
	Conrail Wax Museum	587
	In the Steam Bath	589
	Aegean Sea	589
	Visit to Turk's Head Pub	593
	In the Ritz at Meknes	595
	Arabian Knight	597
	Tenochtitlan Blues	599
	Arcana IV: The Emperor	601
	Arcana VIII: Justice	603
	Arcana X: Fortune	605
	Arcana XII: The Hanged Man	605
	The Story of the Labyrinth	607
	Wands	609
	The Valley of Zapata	611
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	"Maniacs and Crazies"	615
	On Coahuila Street	621
	The Life of a Cucapa Woman	625
	On the "Unusual" Lifestyle of the Cucapa Indians as Recorded by R. W. Hardy, British Lieutenant, While Exploring the Gulf of California	627
	Juan Martinez, Juan Nobody, Juan All	629
	Spanish Versions of Indigenous-Language Poems	637
	About the Translators	659
	Index of English Titles	667
	Index of Spanish Titles	671
	Index of Indigenous Titles	675