The lost origins of the essay / edited and introduced by John D'Agata.
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Saint Paul, Minn. :
Graywolf Press,
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Table of Contents:
- The list of Ziusudra / Ziusudra of Sumer
- Dialogue of pessimism / Ennatum of Akkad
- I have looked diligently at my own mind / Heraclitus of Ephesus
- These are them / Theophrastus of Eressos
- Some information about the Spartans / Mestrius Plutarch
- Sick / Lucius Seneca
- Questions and answers / Azwinaki Tshipala
- The biography of Mr. Five-Willows / T'ao Ch'ien
- Is there a God? / Li Tsung-Yuan
- Miscellany / Li Shang-yin
- The pillow book / Sei Shōnagon
- In all things I yearn for the past / Yoshida Kenkō
- My journey up the mountain / Francesco Petrarch
- Definitions of earthly things / Bernardino de Sahagún
- On some verses of Virgil / Michel de Montaigne
- Antitheses of things / Francis Bacon
- Hydriotaphia, urn burial ; or, A discourse of the sepulchral urns lately found in Norfolk / Thomas Browne
- Narrow road to the interior / Matsuo Bashō
- A modest proposal for preventing the children of poor people in Ireland from being a burden to their parents or country, and for making them beneficial to the public / Jonathan Swift
- My cat Jeoffry / Christopher Smart
- The marriage of heaven and hell / William Blake
- The English mail-coach / Thomas De Qunicey
- Ondine / Aloysius Bertrand
- Be drunk / Charles Baudelaire
- A season in hell / Arthur Rimbaud
- A throw of the dice will never abolish chance / Stéphane Mallarmé
- The I-singer of universong / Velimir Khlebinikov
- The night / Dino Campana
- Anabasis / Saint-John Perse
- Eighteen seconds / Antonin Artaud
- Metaphysics has always struck me as a prolonged form of latent insanity / Fernando Pessoa
- The death of the moth / Virginia Woolf
- Conversation in the mountains / Paul Celan
- The pebble / Francis Ponge
- Dread of one single end / Edmond Jabès
- Tisanes / Ana Hatherly
- Before sleep / Octavio Paz
- Fires / Marguerite Yourcenar
- Tlön, Uqbar, orbis tertius / Jorge Luis Borges
- The instruction manual / Julio Cortázar
- The egg and the chicken / Clarice Lispector
- Egypt / Michel Butor
- He and I / Natalia Ginzburg
- Trench Town rock / Kamau Braithwaite
- Suggestions for running amok / Peter Handke
- The Atlantic man / Marguerite Duras
- Afar a bird / Samuel Beckett
- Seven walks / Lisa Robertson
- What reconciles me / John Berger.