Passageways

Table of Contents

• Cover 1
• Copyright 5
• Acknowledgements 7
• To the Reader 8
• Contents 10
• Passageways 16
• I: Of the Greksand and Hebrews 18
• Jason 20
• Phaedra 21
• Iphigenia 22
• Astyanax 23
• Of the Ancients 24
• Narcissus 25
• Ariadne's Thread 26
• Sappho 27
• Of the Muses 28
• The Greek Alphabet 29
• Matters of Faith 30
• Joseph 31
• Moses 32
• Samson 33
• Jonathan 34
• Ezekiel 35
• In Alexandria 36
• The God that Failed 37
• Diáspora Sefardí 38
• Jerusalem 39
• Jewish Intellectuals 40
• II: Faraway Shores 42
• Unstrung Guitar 44
• Habitación 228, Residencia de Estudiantes, Madrid 45
• Passeig de Gràcia 46
• Praza das Praterías, Santiago de Compostela 47
• Metropolitan Museum 48
• Kyoto Passage 49
• Quarter Moon 50
• In Borges's City 51
• Cementerio de la Recoleta, 1991 52
• In a Provençal Town, circa 1220 AD 53
• Cité Universitaire 54
• Maison de Culture, Bobigny 55
• Trade Fair Palace, Prague, 1942 56
• Olympus 57
• Kiki's House 58
• Flowers of Pelion 59
• The Gentleman Caller 60
• Olive Trees 61
• The Muse 62
• Daybreak over Damouchari 63
• Thalassa 64
• The Surf 65
• Homage to Chiron 66
• The Voice 67
• III: In Troubled Times 68
• Winterschlaf 70
• Paradise Lost 71
• Le défi 72
• Alexanderplatz 73
• Fugue 74
• The Better Angels of our Nature 75
• Sans Illusions 76
• The Paradise Papers 77
• Deontology 78
• Getting to Denmark 79
• Political Cycles 80
• In the Balkans 81
• Yin and Yang 82
• Europa after the Rain 83
• In Postmodern Times 84
• The Look of Silence 85
• Two Images 86
• Truth and Consequences 87
• Atavisms 88
• The Niqab 89
• The Age of Justin 90
• Paris XIe 91
• Lucky Countries 92
• Modernism 93
• The Barbarians 94
• Far from the Imperial Court 95
• Prussia 96
• The Lawgivers 97
• Vergina 98
• The Authoritarian Impulse 99
• Brexit 100
• The Master 101
• History 102
• War and Peace 103
• On a Passage in Kant 104
• After Marx 105
• Making America Great Again 106
• The Demos 107
• Canada at 150 108
• Sesquicentenary 109
• IV: Meditations and Reflections 112
• Iolkos 114
• Theomachy 115
• Orpheus 116
• The Beach 117
• Rousseau 118
• Salon World 119
• Condorcet 120
• In Hölderlin's Footsteps 121
• Johan Huizinga's Homo Ludens 122
• The Hampels 123
• A Poet's Shadow 124
• L'Écriture ou la Vie 125
• The Pilgrim 126
• On Some Lines in Seferis 127
• The Alexandria Quartet 128
• A Northern Lyre 129
• Sentimental Education 130
• On Re-reading Neruda's "The Heights of Macchu Picchu" 131
• Fidelity 132
• Bitter Oranges 133
• In the Literary Café 134
• Lost Lines 135
• The Obscure Hours 136
• Land's End 137
• The Burden of the Past 138
• Ballad of Farewell 139
• The City 140
• V: Thanatos's Shadow 142
• The Triumph of Death 144
• In the Archaeological Museum 145
• Moonlit Paths 146
• The Ferryman 147
• On Reading Machado 148
• Stabat Mater 149
• Night Poem 150
• Night Vigil 151
• For Mahie 152
• Decline 153
• You Looked Pretty 154
• Last Days 155
• Hemodialysis Ward 156
• Hospital Vigil 157
• Genealogy 158
• Intermezzo 159
• I Have Become My Country 160
• Purdy Pavilion, UBC 161
• Euridyce 162
• The Swallow 163
• On Solitude 164
• Ave atque vale 165
• The Portrait 166
• Gratitude and Grieving 167
• Agios Tachiarchis 168
• The Enchanted Cove 169
• Darkness 170
• On Revisiting a Cavafy Poem 171
• About the Author 172
• Back Cover 174