From the Book - First edition.
Preface. I Remember Roque, Ernesto Cardenal ; Roque Dalton: Poet and Revolutionary, Claribel Alegria ; Love Falls Like a Generous Rain, Hardie St. Martin --
The window in my face. Study with a Little Tedium ; The Crazy Ones ; Time for Ashes ; Hating Love ; Monday ; My Horse ; Listen ; Poems-In-Law to Lisa ; Dream Far Away from Time ; Vernacular Elegy for Francisco Sorto ; Minor Chorus of the Fifth Cell --
The injured party's turn. The Decision ; Island on the Fifth Floor ; Storm ; Stillborn Parable ; The Bad Example ; Because I Spoke Out ; I See ; Insomnia ; The Disciple ; The Tropics ; Naked Woman ; b Maria Tecun ; The Art of Poetry ; Madrigal ; Words in front of the Sea ; The Sixth Commandment ; What a Crazy Man Said to Me ; Megalomania ; The Pope ; Old Woman with Small Boy ; Another Dead Woman ; Cesar Vallejo ; Vanity ; Small Hours of the Night ; The Bureaucrats ; Mariano the Musician Has Died ; Epitaph ; Terrible Thing ; I Wanted --
The testimonies. Juan Cunjama, Sorcerer ; Overlook ; The Desert ; Rite for the Birth of a Flower on the Great Pyramid ; The Deer ; Pine ; Homage to Sage ; Relative --
Minor hells. My Country's Far Away ; Forgetting ; Middle Age ; Leaves ; Passing the Factory ; Now You See Why ; When Death ; Tied Down to the Sea ; I Remember When I'd Talk of Lisa ; A Dead Girl in the Ocean ; Memory ; The Prodigal Son ; German-American Hotel --
Tavern and other places. I. The country. Latin America ; 27 Years ; Fear ; Soldier's Rest ; The Captain ; In a Fit of Anger ; The National Soul ; The Law Enforcer ; The Sure Hand of God --
II. The country. The foreigners. Sir Thomas ; Samantha ; Matthew ; The Bishop ; Lady Ann ; The Firstborn ; Sir Thomas ; Matthew ; Sir Thomas ; Matthew ; Samantha ; Lady Ann ; The Firstborn --
III. The country. Poems from the last prison. Prison Again ; Preparing the Next Hour ; Independence Day ; Summer ; Your Company ; I Smell Bad ; Bad News on a Scrap of Newspaper ; Permission to Wash Up ; Some Longings ; Number 357 --
Six prose poems. The Morning I Met My Father --
History. The Young People ; A Not Exactly Optimistic Tragedy ; Springtime in Jevani ; The Social Being Determines Social Conscience ; In Case of Doubt ; Love Story ; 50th Anniversary ; Tavern --
Love hits me harder than springtime. Love ; Zdena ; What's Missing ; 35 Years ; Sunday Morning ; Seeing You Naked ; Date --
A lightly repellent book. Therapeutics ; Saudade ; Epitaph ; Tense Conversation ; Trick ; No, I Wasn't Always This Ugly --
