Contents
Preface: Timeless Tanikawa
Acknowledgements
A Checklist
From Two Billion Light-Years of Solitude (1952) Ambitions
At the Bus Stop
A Night
A Grey Stage
Two Billion Light-Years of Solitude
Hospital
Secrets and X-Rays
Nero
A Contemporary Afternoon Snack
From 62 Sonnets (1953)
xi xiv xv
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44
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67
8
11
From On Love (1955) Evening
An Echo
A River
A Picnic to Earth
With Silence My Companion (1968)
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From At Midnight in the Kitchen I Just Wanted to Talk to You (1975) At Midnight in the Kitchen I Just Wanted to Talk to You 45 Written at 14 E. 28th Street, New York City 49 ‘My Favourite Things’ 50 For John Coltrane 51 After Shakespeare 52 On the Beach 53
