Tugs in the Fog: Selected Poems

, by Margarit, Joan

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ISBN: 9781852247515 | 1852247517
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Copyright: 4/15/2007

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Poems evoking the Spanish Civil War and its aftermath, The harshness of life in Barcelona under Franco, And The grief at the death of a beloved handicapped daughter.

Poem for a frieze	p. 19
Odysseus in Ithacan waters	p. 20
On a beach in the Aegean	p. 21
Love and time	p. 22
The treasure-island	p. 23
Woman of spring	p. 24
Mother and daughter at breakfast	p. 25
Beginnings and endings	p. 26
Sea-urchin	p. 27
Self-portrait	p. 28
The banquet	p. 29
Midsummer night's dream	p. 30
First love	p. 31
Smiling	p. 32
Loverman	p. 33
Tugs in the fog	p. 34
Raymond Chandler	p. 36
Going to Reading	p. 37
End of the reading	p. 38
Don't throw away your love letters	p. 39
Background tenderness	p. 40
Domestic affair	p. 41
The oracle	p. 42
The eyes in the rear-view mirror	p. 43
My fathers's face	p. 44
Astapovo	p. 45
The first frosts	p. 46
A man, a woman, a city	p. 49
Old murderers among us	p. 50
Landscape near the airport	p. 51
Estacio de Franca (1946)	p. 52
Uncle Lluis	p. 54
White flowers in the mist	p. 55
Garcia Lorca Express	p. 56
Piety	p. 57
The suitcase	p. 58
The girl at the traffic-lights	p. 59
Drifting	p. 60
Swimming pool	p. 61
The sea	p. 62
Architecture	p. 63
The German teacher	p. 64
Farewell	p. 65
Initiation	p. 68
Poem in black	p. 69
Paintings from an exhibition	p. 70
Etching	p. 72
Autumn path	p. 73
Dark night in Balmes Street	p. 74
A woman speaks	p. 76
Sonnet in two cities	p. 77
The combination	p. 78
Son in winter	p. 79
Immigrants	p. 80
Last train	p. 81
Dawn at Cap de Creus	p. 82
At the hearing	p. 84
Philosopher in the night	p. 85
No return address	p. 88
Ghosts of the barbed-wire	p. 89
You arrived too late for your own time	p. 90
There are no miracles	p. 92
The dawn at Cadiz	p. 93
Christmas lights at Sant Just	p. 94
Four o'clock in the morning	p. 95
Fontana Metro	p. 96
Mother and daughter	p. 97
Plea	p. 98
Final stroll	p. 99
One poor instant	p. 100
End	p. 101
June night	p. 102
Space and time	p. 103
Children's story	p. 104
Passenger	p. 105
Lullaby	p. 106
The present and Fores	p. 107
Professor Bonaventura Bassegoda	p. 109
First summer without you	p. 110
Gravestone	p. 112
Waiting	p. 113
In the depth of the night	p. 114
Self-portrait with sea	p. 117
Young partridge	p. 118
Feeble brightness	p. 119
Writings and rooms	p. 120
On loneliness	p. 121
End of day	p. 122
Secrets	p. 123
Es Pujol	p. 125
Final struggles	p. 126
Morning in Montjuic cemetery	p. 127
Tango	p. 128
Safety	p. 129
Entenca Street	p. 130
Going past the Terramar	p. 131
About my father and mother's honeymoon	p. 132
Motorway	p. 133
Athens Airport	p. 134
Landscape of La Conca	p. 135
Structural calculations	p. 136
The sons of Captain Grant	p. 137
Shipwrecks	p. 138
Bedroom	p. 139
End of a tale	p. 140
Scene	p. 141
Conversation	p. 142
The age you would be now	p. 143
Inventory	p. 144
Beirut moon	p. 145
The railway bridge	p. 147
Summer's seductions	p. 148
Homage	p. 149
Asking	p. 150
Insomnia	p. 151
Two photographs	p. 152
Final notice	p. 153
The blackbird	p. 154
Venice	p. 155
Interior	p. 156
Van Gogh's nephew	p. 157
September beach	p. 158
Infidelities	p. 159
Window	p. 160
Three women	p. 161
Ballad of the old merchant	p. 162
Goodbye to Uncle Lluis	p. 164
The dance of love	p. 165
Monument to the dead in the Korean War	p. 166
The dead	p. 167
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