Había sido un arbusto desmedrado que prolonga sus filamentos hasta encontrar el humus necesario en una tierra nueva. Y cómo me nutría! Me nutría con la beatitud con que las hojas trémulas de clorófila se extienden al sol; con la beatitud con que una raíz encuentra un cadáver en descompositión; con la beatitud con que los convalecientes dan sus pasos vacilantes en las mañanas de primavera, bañadas de luz; ...

RAFAEL ARÉVALO MARTÍNEZ

Many of the poems in this book have appeared in magazines, especially in Poetry, Others, The Egoist, and The Poetry Journal.

CONTENTS

PAGE
[Sub Terra][13]
[Pastoral][14]
[Chickory and Daisies][15]
[Metric Figure][16]
[Woman Walking][17]
[Gulls][18]
[Appeal][19]
[In Harbor][20]
[Winter Sunset][21]
[Apology][22]
[Pastoral][23]
[Love Song][24]
[M. B.][25]
[Tract][26]
[Promenade][29]
[El Hombre][31]
[Hero][31]
[Libertad! Igualdad! Fraternidad!][32]
[Canthara][33]
[Mujer][33]
[Summer Song][34]
[Love Song][35]
[Foreign][35]
[A Prelude][36]
[History][37]
[Winter Quiet][42]
[Dawn][42]
[Good Night][43]
[Danse Russe][44]
[Portrait of a Woman in Bed][45]
[Virtue][47]
[Conquest][49]
[Portrait of a Young Man With a Bad Heart][49]
[Keller Gegen Dom][50]
[Smell][52]
[Ballet][52]
[Sympathetic Portrait of a Child][54]
[The Ogre][55]
[Riposte][56]
[The Old Men][57]
[Pastoral][57]
[Spring Strains][58]
[Trees][59]
[A Portrait in Greys][60]
[Invitation][61]
[Divertimiento][62]
[January Morning][62]
[To a Solitary Disciple][67]
[Dedication for a Plot of Ground][69]
[K. McB.][70]
[Love Song][71]
[The Wanderer][75]

AL QUE QUIERE!