Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Translator's Introduction v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Contents ix
5. Foreword 1
6. Hide and Seek (1960)
7. Gioco a Nascondere 12
8. Hide and Seek 13
9. Anna Perenna 30
10. The Oven 45
11. The Farmhouse 53
12. Candles 61
13. Smoky Topaz 67
14. Patrol 71
15. The Days 73
16. Shadows 75
17. Baroque Songs and Other Lyrics (1956)
18. Oratorio for Valverde 82
19. The Sundial 91
20. Sirocco 97
21. Night 99
22. At the Time of the Bourbon King 105
23. The Warning 109
24. The Conjurer 111
25. Cards on the March 115
26. The Soul and Sleights of Hand 121
27. Although You Seek 123
28. Inconstant World 127
29. Where Sun-spores 129
30. The Bony Knuckles Try 131
31. We Live by Pauses 135
32. Veneris Venefica Agrestis 137
33. The Moon Brings the Month 145
34. Long Tendrils . . . 149
35. But in the Night that Crosses 153
36. The Hunt 157
37. Plumelia (1967)
38. Guide for Climbing the Mountain 166
39. The Passage 173
40. Nocturne 177
41. The Lost Message 181
42. The Street Outside the Gate 185
43. The Three Figures 189
44. The Suburbs 191
45. The Dead 193
46. Plumelia 195
47. Afterword for Baroque Songs and Other Lyrics 197