The Unknown University (64 page)

Index of English titles

“According to Alain Resnais”
45

“After a dream”
455

“A happy ending”
787

“All the stores were closed today”
223

Among the Horses
325

Angels
119

Another Morning at Estrella de Mar Campground
251

Antwerp
417

“A person caresses you, teases you”
501

Applause
409

“A Tao .
.
.
A Tao .
.
.
Our little Darío”
205

“At 4 a.m.
old photographs of Lisa”
17

Atole
657

“Autumn in Gerona”
477

“A woman — I ought to say a stranger —”
449

“A woman’s voice says she loves”
87

Bar, The
331

Barcelona Afternoons
287

Barcelona Scene, A
231

“Beautiful unremembered moments”
197

Bend, The
243

“Between Friedrich von Hausen”
285

Big Silver Waves
395

“Blood coagulated on horizontal glass”
105

Blue
313

Bruno Montané Turns Thirty
567

Bum, The
401

Calle Tallers
379

“Call the boss and tell him”
513

Chilean Poetry Is a Gas
521

Chinese Poet in Barcelona
27

Cleaning Utensils
319

Clear Water Along the Way
403

“
Cloudy daybreak
”
499

“Cold reality frozen fly’s eye”
265

Dance, The
411

Daybreak
7

“Day breaks at the campground”
249

“Death, too, has some systems of clarity”
481

“Death is an automobile”
273

“Death is an automobile”
577

Detectives, The
605

Dickensian Children
33

“Docks Every evil spirit brightens up”
121

Donkey, The
695

“Don’t listen to the voices of dead friends, Gaspar”
269

Don’t Write Poems but Sentences
39

Elements, The
429

El Greco
97

Empty Cars
427

Empty Place Near Here, An
371

Ernesto Cardenal and I
671

Ethics
115

“Expect nothing of combat”
75

Extra Silence, An
365

Eyes
641

F.
B.
—He Dead
687

Façade
303

Fat Chance, Hon
291

“Fever falls like snowflakes”
137

A Fly Inside a Fly
229

Footsteps on the Stairs
361

For Antoni García Porta
259

For Edna Lieberman
151

For Efraín Huerta
49

For Rosa Lentini, Who Wants to be Grown Up and Responsible
195

For Victoria Ávalos
181

Four Poems for Lautaro Bolaño
793

Fragments
233

Fritz Leiber Rereads Some of his Stories
89

“From this side of the river”
465

Front Line, The
203

Frozen Detectives, The
609

Fucking Whistler
31

Fullness of the Wind, The
305

“Garbage .
.
.
With great care I’ve drawn the ‘G’”
153

Ghost of Edna Lieberman, The
711

“Go to hell, Roberto, and remember you’ll never”
101

“Goodnight cornea goodnight”
247

Great Pit, The
675

Greek, The
729

Green, Red, and White Checks
307

“Guiraut de Bornelh the rain”
69

“Guiraut Sitting on the tavern porch”
77

Gun to His Mouth, The
393

Gypsies
565

Happy Ending, A
803

“Hills shaded beyond your dreams”
271

Homage to Resortes
691

Homage to Tin Tan
693

Hope
179

Horde
523

Hospital, A
387

“I am a bed that never creaks a bed at one”
169

“I asked if she was still there”
41

“I brush my teeth, wash my face”
489

“I can’t walk, you say”
103

“I deserved every bit of it, boss, don’t turn on the light”
239

“I dreamt of frozen detectives”
603

“I dreamt of lips”
63

“I listen to Barney Kessel”
255

“I mean: there’s Giorgio Fox”
491

“I’m in a bar and someone’s name is Soni”
161

I’m My Own Bewitchment
311

“In a thousand years nothing will be left”
19

“Indeed, dejection, angst, etc.”
487

“In District 5 with the Latin Americans”
275

“In dreams I returned to my childhood country”
589

“In lost cars, with two or three distant friends”
581

In Some Enormous Dry Place, 1949
569

Inspector, The
293

Instructions, The
327

Interval of Silence
343

“In the reading room of Hell”
135

“In the TV movie”
587

Iron Table
157

“I said I’d never forget you”
281

“I saw her walking down the street”
579

I Saw My Father Again
701

“I see them every day, with their motorbikes”
583

“It doesn’t matter where the wind drags you”
213

It’s Better to Learn How to Read than to Learn How to Die
781

“It’s hardly surprising that the author’s room”
467

“It’s hardly surprising that the author walks”
497

“It’s nighttime and I’m in the Zona Alta”
245

Juan del Encina
185

King of Parks, The
715

Knife’s Glare, The
421

La Chelita
199

La Francesa
635

La Pava Roadside Bar of Castelldefels
415

Last Love Song of Pedro J.
Lastarria, alias “El Chorito,”
The
665

Last Savage, The
591

Latin American Poetry
525

Launch Ramps
385

Light, The
661

Like a Waltz
405

Lisa
629

Lola Paniagua
167

Lost Detectives, The
607

Luck
571

Lupe
625

Macedonio Fernández
191

Mario Santiago
227

Medic, The
375

Mexican Manifesto
529

“Middle Ages of long hair untouched by the wind”
71

Molly
261

Money
219

Monkey, A
321

Monk, The
55

Monty Alexander
425

Motorcyclists, The
399

Mr.
Wiltshire
745

Muse
805

My Castles
25

“My gift to you will be an abyss, she said”
633

My Life in the Tubes of Survival
683

My One True Love
339

My Poetry
29

Nagas
431

Napo
563

Neochileans, The
749

Never Alone Again
407

“Never get sick Lose all the battles”
65

New Subdivisions.
Nightmare
241

Nile, The
317

Nomad, The
617

“No one sends you letters now”
277

Notes on a Castration
437

Nothing Bad Will Happen to Me
253

“Now you fill the screen”
509

“Now you’re slipping toward the plan”
505

“Now you walk alone along the piers”
283

Nurses, The
709

Occasionally It Shook
367

“Of chairs, of premium sunsets”
163

Only Image I’ve Kept of T.
C., The
51

Palingenesis
719

“Paradise, at times”
495

“Paris rue des Eaux”
225

Patricia Pons
131

People Walking Away
389

Perfection
359

Plain, The
127

Poe’s Library
129

Poet Does Not Wait for the Lady, The
57

Police
601

Policeman Walked Away, The
333

Portrait in May, 1994
801

Postscript
433

Prickly Pear
663

Pulsing of Your Heart, The
557

Rain
647

Reading of Conrad Aiken, A
93