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Contents Acknowledgments xi Foreword by August Kleinzahler xiii From Shepherd's Song / Piosenka pasterska (1999) Morning on Earth 3 Yesterday 4 Visibility 5 Municipal Services 6 Continued 7 i.m. Milton Hindus 8 Short Version 9 Tomorrow 10 Shepherd's Song 11 From elsewhere Sometimes, Yes 15 From Lyric Factor and Other Poems / Czynnik liryczny i inne wiersze (1988) Indiscretions 19 Candle 20 Amnesia 21 Station Lights 22 Landscape with Branch 23 Transparencies 24 Innocence 25 Believe me 26 Home and Night 27 Guesswork 28 Days of the Week 29 Travel Permit, Round Trip 30 Leaves and Comes Back 31 Medicine 32 According to Brecht 33 A Certain Tree in Powazki Cemetery 34 Fragile 35 Don't Sleep, Take Notes 37 Third State 38 Liberation, in Language 39 Landscape with Wind 40 Worldliness 41 Neolith 42 Talkativeness 43 Grammar 44 Ah, Continuity 45 Lighter, Darker 46 Proofs 47 Apolitical Poem 48 Ode to the Carnival 50 Don't Worry, It Won't Get Lost 51 Receding Planets of the Rowan Tree 52 Out of Town 54 Prospects in Prose 55 A Small Treatise on Non-Contradiction 56 A Maple Leaf 57 From elsewhere Little Graves 61 From A Subsequent World / Kolejny Swiat (1983) The January Star 67 Mikus, Adam,Wieniek, and Me 68 Easter 69 Celebrations 70 Line 72 viii A Visit 73 Small Cripplings 74 Hi, Helena 75 Space 76 Standards from the Seventies 77 You Can Walk Tall 78 Another World 79 Hygiene 80 Potatoes 81 In the Provinces 82 One Day 83 From elsewhere Communication Department 87 Confirmation 88 FromWhat We're Remembered By/Pamiqtki po nas (1980) First Sentence 93 This Is Certain 95 Two Poems for Suchy The Desk 96 Hello and Return 97 Old Frame Houses of Radosc 99 A Bit More Effort, Please 100 Between Bus Stop and Home 101 Domestic 102 Says the Son 103 Transportist 104 Belated Letter 105 From elsewhere Great, Now What 113 Other Half 114 ix From the American (1989) Things to Translate Afterlife 119 Improper names 119 Forefathers, our representatives 120 Meeting people 120 Among ourselves 120 The zoo as text 121 A song 122 Untranslatability of squirrels 122 List of poems, prose pieces, and translators 124 About the author 128 X ...