[POD] The Stillness of the World Before Bach Poetry

Editorial Note viii
Introduction ix
Christopher Middleton
from The Balloonists / Ballongfararna (1962)
After Rain [P.M.] 1 (1)
In the Hague [R.F.] 2 (1)
Fire and Air Machine [H.W.] 3 (1)
The Balloonists [P.M.] 4 (2)
from A Morning in Sweden / En formiddag in
Sverige (1963)
Summer Song [Y.L.S.] 6 (2)
In Time [R.F.] 8 (1)
Beyond Irony [R.F.] 9 (1)
The Conditions [R.F.] 10 (1)
The Fortress [R.F.] 11 (2)
The Dog [P.M.] 13 (1)
from Journey to the Center of the Earth / En
reas till jordens medelpunkt (1966)
Snow [P.M.] 14 (1)
A Landscape [P.M.] 15 (5)
from A Journey to the Center of the Earth 20 (2)
[R.F.]
Bombus terrestris [R.F.] 22 (2)
The Machines [H.W.] 24 (2)
Discussions [C.M.] 26 (2)
The Bridges of Konigsberg [C.M.] 28 (1)
A Story from Russia [C.M.] 29 (1)
from The Wright Brothers Look for Kitty Hawk
/ Broderna Wright uppsoker Kitty Hawk (1968)
The Living and the Dead [H.W.] 30 (1)
Elegy [P.M.] 31 (1)
Three Poems from the New World [R.F.] 32 (3)
Concert for Mechanical Blowers [R.F.] 35 (2)
On the Deepest Sounds [C.M.] 37 (1)
Notes on the 1860s [C.M.] 38 (1)
from Declaration of Love to a Sephardic Lady
/ Karleksforklaring till en sefardisk dam
(1970)
Events in 1939-An Episode in
Berlin-Symphonie
Phantastique-The Story of the Great Drawing
Shaft at
Blankstoten-Pain Is a Fire . . . [R.F.] 39 (21)
from Warm Rooms and Cold / Varma rum och
kalla (1972)
Warm Rooms and Cold [Y.L.S.] 60 (1)
Song of Equilibrium [Y.L.S.] 61 (2)
The Discords [Y.L.S.] 63 (2)
Darkness [Y.L.S.] 65 (1)
Poem on Revisionism [P.M.] 65 (1)
Lines for the Prince of Venosa [Y.L.S.] 66 (6)
San Francisco Sailing on Under the Earth 72 (2)
[Y.L.S.]
Brief Treatise on Seeing and Being Seen 74 (2)
[Y.L.S.]
from Sonnets / Sonetter (1977)
Sonnet I: The Desert by Rio Grande [Y.L.S.] 76 (1)
Sonnet XVI [P.M.] 77 (1)
Sonnet XVII [P.M.] 78 (1)
Sonnet XXIII [P.M.] 79 (1)
Sonnet XXVIII [P.M.] 80 (1)
Sestina on a Successful Volley [Y.L.S.] 81 (2)
Sestina (from Sonnets, XXII) [Y.L.S.] 83 (2)
from Artesian Wells Cartesian Dreams /
Artesiska brunnar cartesianska drommar (1980)
Elegy for a Dead Labrador [Y.L.S.] 85 (2)
Song of the Depths of the World, the Depths 87 (3)
of the Eye, the Brevity of Life [Y.L.S.]
Ballad of the Dogs [P.M.] 90 (2)
Ballad on the Stone Forest in Yunnan [P.M.] 92 (3)
from The Stillness of the World Before Bach /
Varldens tystnad fore Bach (1983)
The Stillness of the World Before Bach 95 (1)
[P.M.]
Eel and Well [P.M.] 96 (1)
On Certain Evenings ... [P.M.] 96 (1)
Streams of Particles [P.M.] 97 (1)
The Chinese Painter ... [P.M.] 97 (1)
A Wind in Texas [P.M.] 98 (1)
The Decisive Battle ... [P.M.] 98 (1)
from Birds / Faglarna (1984)
Winter in a Westphalian Village [C.M.] 99 (1)
On the Speed of Swallows [C.M.] 100 (1)
Fragment [C.M.] 101 (1)
La Salpetriere: April 1980 [C.M.] 102 (1)
Looking at a Portrait of Lou Andreas-Salome 103 (1)
[C.M.]
On All That Glides in the Air [C.M.] 104 (2)
Flight of Cranes over Skane at Dawn in 106 (1)
April [C.M.]
The Doge [P.M.] 107 (1)
The Starred Sky ... [P.M.] 108 (1)
The Birds: Canal Landscape with Ten Locks, 109 (1)
in the Dutch Manner [C.M.]
Birdsong, Echo of the Original Paradise 110 (1)
[C.M.]
Lot's Wife [C.M.] 111 (1)
Border Zone, Minefield, Snow East of Bebra 112 (1)
[C.M.]
Placenta [C.M.] 113 (1)
The Cherry Tree [C.M.] 113 (1)
The Pansies [C.M.] 114 (1)
Hunting Dogs [C.M.] 114 (1)
Comparison Between Insect Song and Bird 114 (1)
Song [C.M.]
The Didapper [P.M.] 115 (1)
The Crows [P.M.] 116
June Night [C.M.] 116