Contents

Translator’s Preface page 11

from  language of a different stripe (2008) from the sequence Jewels of Brazil Portrait of Cecilia Gallerani (Lady with the Ermine) 21 Nafea Faa Ipoipo (When Will You Marry?) 22 from the sequence European Colonies European Colonies 8 23 European Colonies 9 24 from the sequence Hesitant Prospect Hesitant Prospect 1 – 12 25 from the sequence Shukran Dimashq Nordstau Effect 29 Where Our Skin 30 Bodies Well Lost 30 We Did Not Carry 31 Shukran Dimashq 32 from the sequence St Petersburg Poem St Petersburg Poem: The Truth 32 from the sequence Lost Gardens of Heligan Genealogy News 34 Lost Gardens of Heligan 34 from the sequence Sweepsound Sweepsound 5 , 7 35 from the sequence If Bohemia Lies by the Sea If Bohemia Lies by the Sea 36 from the sequence No Pathos Please No Pathos Please 1 – 8 38