| Contents |
Samarkand Update -- Copied from the Margins -- Copied from the Margins (2) -- Swan -- Another Name for It -- Almost Between a Rock and a Hard Place -- Scenes from Family Life -- While Waiting for the Weather to Retreat -- The Perfectionist -- Shorter Version -- Opening Scene -- Robert Walser Speaks about Robert Walser -- Untiled I -- Untiled II -- Untiled III (A False Painting) -- Untiled IV -- Untiled V (Unsent Postcard) -- Untiled VI (In Place of a Dream) -- Untiled VII -- Untiled VIII (Movie Plots #13 through 39) -- Untiled IX (Posted Postcard) -- Untiled X (False Painting #2) -- Untiled XI (after Franz von Stuck and Arnold Bocklin) -- Untiled XII -- Untiled XIII (First Variation on XII) -- Untiled XIV -- Untiled XV (After an Unknown Artist) -- Untiled XVI -- Untiled XVII -- Untiled XVIII (Guide to Museum Collection) -- Untiled XIX (Recent Acquisitions) -- The Last Emperor Lives on the Moon -- Cadmium Deposits, Cobalt Traces, and Ocher Mist -- Heraclitus's Parking Lot -- Film Adaptations of Five of America's Most Beloved Poems -- Genghis Chan, The Film -- Lake Country -- The Long Way Around -- Double-Headed Creature Features -- The Story So Far, and Not One Step Farther -- The Shortest Distance between Two Walls -- Summer Rental -- Summer Hiatus -- Poem Based on a Non-Existent Photograph -- Our Small but Perfect Town -- The Difference Between Autobiography and Romance -- The Dog and Pony Opera -- I'm Just a Factory Boy -- Second Chapter -- Side Street Adjacent to Lower Breughel Parkway. |
| Abstract |
John Yau, a prolific poet and art critic, innovative publisher, editor, and curator, presents his new collection of short fictions and prose poems. |
| General note | "This first edition is published in paper wrappers; there are 200 hardcover trade copies; 100 hardcover copies have been numbered & signed by the author; & 22 copies lettered A-V are handbound in boards by Earle Gray each with an original artwork by John Yau." --Colophon. |
| Acquisitions source |
Joyner Rare copy Purchased from Oak Knoll Books, 1/15/2023 |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Yau, John, 1950- My heart is that eternal, Rose Tattoo. Santa Rosa : Black Sparrow Press, 2001 |
| Genre/form | Fiction. |
| Genre/form | Fiction. |
| LCCN | 2001052818 |
| ISBN | 1574231707 (signed cloth ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9781574231700 (signed cloth ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 1574231693 (cloth trade ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9781574231694 (cloth trade ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 1574231685 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9781574231687 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
