PART I—E-TERNITÉ
Florentino’s Law:
“Everything is a work-in-progress.”
Corollary 1:
“Everybeing is a work-in-progress.”
Corollary 2:
“The universe is a work-in-progress.”
A work-in-progress:
é-TERNITÉ
by ALBERTO FLORENTINO
Proem
19th century France. One of the earliest—and
shortest—exchanges of very very short short notes
between two men: the French novelist Victor Hugo and his
(unnamed) agent. Hugo wrote a query on a piece of paper,
attached it to his MS with a dangerous straight pin (before
the invention of the paper clip or the Post-it), and sent it
via the surest, quickest route (before FedEx or e-mail): a
boy messenger on foot. His query on the note—
?
After perusal, the agent wrote his reply on the same note and
sent it back to his client—
!
Flash forward to the year 2000 A.D. Jose Garcia Villa's poem
in The Parlement of Giraffes, edited by John Cowen
(Manila, Anvil, 1999); under the title, "The Emperor's
New Clothes," was a—
BLANK.
A poem by Edward Wellen, entitled "If Eve Had Failed to
Conceive," had—under the title—not a word.
NADA
In another poem by Jose Garcia Villa in Parlement
(see above), under the title "The Bashful One," way
down on the left bottom side, a single punctuation mark:
[,]
How about poems—or non-poems—with only one word?
Written on a stone on John Ruskin's desk was the word—
TODAY
IBM has had, as a corporate motto, frequently framed and hung
on the wall in boardrooms or cubicles (sometimes found on a
desk, doubling as a paperweight), the word—
THINK
How about poems with 10 words or less? Here’s an English
translation of a haiku by the master poet Basho:
Old pond,
leap-splash—
a frog.
(6 words)
Another Basho haiku in translation:
The butterfly,
resting upon the temple bell,
asleep.
(8 words)
The Filipinos in the Philippines (and in the US and elsewhere
in the world) have had an ancient poem called tanaga,
more complex than the Japanese haiku—
Katawan mong madudurog,
uuuri't mabubulok,
siyang sinusunudsunud,
hinihimas, iniirog.
(9 words)
No translation is offered here; instead, only a transcription
made by the Spanish friars:
catao an mong marororog,
oouri't, maboboloc,
siyang sinosonodsonod,
hinihimas, iniirog.
(10 words)
In the 20th anniversary issue of the journal, Gargoyle
(double-issue, #39/40), is a one-line poem by Sparrow
(probably a pseudonym):
A NEW POEM
This poem replaces all my previous poems.
(7 words)
Other poems written in this short short format in English
include Williams Carlos Williams’—
[THE RED WHEELBARROW]
Ezra Pound’s—
[AT THE STATION OF THE METRO]
Carl Sandburg’s—
[THE FOG]
Unlike the above three poems, some poems do not require any
copyright/permission—because in the public
domain—like this quatrain by an anonymous 16th-century
English bard—
O western wind, when wilt thou blow
the small rain down can rain?
Christ, if my love were in my arms,
and I in my bed again.
(27 words)
Another short short poem by Robert Browning—
PIPPA PASSES
The year’s at the spring
and day’s at the morn;
morning’s at seven;
the hillside’s dew-pearled;
the lark’s on the wing;
the snail’s on the thorn;
God’s in his heaven—
all’s right with the world!
(36 words)
This time, a woman poet—from Antiquity, from Lesbos,
named Sappho—wrote in Greek a poem that reaches us only
in translation—because otherwise it would literally be
“Greek to me.”
I was so happy…
believe me, I
prayed that that
night might be
doubled for us.
(16 words)
Now, an erotic poem by a lady-poet, Marichiko, of Japan, to
which I’ve tacked (a/my own) title to make into a 15- to
30- second “digital internet movie” (in short, a
filmpoem)—
“EROTICON”
You wake me,
part my thighs, and kiss me.
I give you the dew
of the first morning of the world.
(21 words)
Again, Jose Garcia Villa (see above) wrote hundreds of
couplets or aphorisms. This is a longer (but still a brief)
poem—
I can no more hear love's
voice. no more moves
the mouth of her. birds
no more sing. words
i speak return lonely.
flowers i pick turn ghostly.
fire that i burn glows
pale. no more blows
the wind. time tells
no more truth. bells
ring no more in me.
i am all alone singly.
lonely rests my head.
—O my God! i am dead.
(65 words)
Now, let’s turn to prose; here are two prose pieces;
first, a Zen koan—
THE MUDDY ROAD
Two monks were once traveling together down a muddy road. A
heavy rain was falling.
Coming
around the bend, they met a lovely girl in a silk kimono and
sash, unable to cross the intersection.
"Come
on, girl," said the first monk. Lifting her in his arms,
he carried her over the mud.
The
second monk did not speak again until that night when they
reached a lodging temple. Then he no longer could restrain
himself.
"We
monks don't go near females," he said. "It is
dangerous. Why did you do that?"
"I
left the girl there," the first monk said. "Are you
still carrying her?"
Next, the famous Chinese “shortshorthing” on Chuang
Tzu and the Butterfly:
Chuang Tzu said,
"Once upon a time I dreamt myself a butterfly, floating
like petals in the air, happy to be doing as I pleased, no
longer aware of myself!
"But
soon enough I awoke and then, frantically clutching myself,
Chuang Tzu I was!
"I
wonder: Was Chuang Tzu dreaming himself the butterfly, or was
the butterfly dreaming itself Chuang Tzu?
"Of
course, if you take Chuang Tzu and the butterfly together,
then there's a difference between them.
"But
that difference is only due to their changing material
forms."
Lest this literary brief be too long, let’s end with
another koan—
“What is the sound of one hand clapping?”
(8 words; no audio)
e-TERNITÉ =
• a CyberMagazine
• a Venue for the
“SHORTSHORTHING”
e-TERNITÉ =
• an INTERNET Magazine
• for CYBERSPACE
• for the 21st Century
• for the 3rd Millennium
• for the Digital Age
to be launched officially in the 3rd Millennium which begins
midnight of 1 January 2001.
Starting in the last century of the past 2nd
millennium—e-TERNITÉ will alert the Netizens of the
whole wide world to the inaugural of—as far as we know,
as of today; cross our fingers—the first ‘zine in
Cyberspace devoted exclusively to a literary form that may
have been born—
• yesterday in lower Manhattan ...
• in the New World a century ago ...
• in the Old World a millennium ago ...
• in Antiquity some eons ago ...
but has not been appropriately baptized in the past century
or the past millennium, but which we will tentatively call
the—
“SHORTSHORTHING."
What really, in concrete terms, is the
“SHORTSHORTHING”?
A New literary format as Old as—
• Christ’s parables
• the Zen koan
• the Japanese haiku
• the English quatrain
• the Indian/Urdu ghazal
• the Filipino tanaga
• the Tagalog dagli
Which is also an Old literary format as New as—
• “Poetry in Motion” broadsheets plastered on
the ceilings of New York (& London & San Francisco)
buses and subways for the harried turn-of-the-(20th) century
New Yorker with probably the shortest attention span;
• the 10-minute Play
• the 17-syllable Haiku
• the one-page mini-Essay
• the 250-word Story
• the 10-minute Opera
• the 5-minute Fiction in Roberta Allen’s
decade-old workshop in New York; and in 199 other similar
writing workshops all over U.S. campuses.
Some of the authors of this minimalist or miniaturist art
have included—
• The first pioneer of "New Journalism"
(whoever she was) who wrote—in less than 800 words (in
the King James English version) in Hebrew—an
"On-the-Spot" Reportage on the Biggest Event of All
Time: "The Creation" in Genesis, the first Book of
the Old Testament;
• Shakespeare and his precious poetic gems embedded in
some of his plays;
• Jesus Christ and His Parables in the New Testament;
• Aesop and his Fables;
• Petronius and his short tale, "The Widow of
Ephesus," that today would have made the endpages of
Playboy or Penthouse; and contemporary practitioners—
• Jorge Luis Borges: “Ficciones”
• Nobel Laureate Yusinari Kawabata:
"Palm-of-the-Hand" Stories;
• Robert Browning: "Pippa Passes"
• Ezra Pound: 14 word poem;
• Carl Sandburg: "The Fog"
• William Carlos Williams: “The Red
Wheelbarrow"
Gems by—
• Emily Dickinson
• Ogden Nash
• Dorothy Parker
• a motley crowd of housewives and young writers
enrolled in some 200 "sudden fiction" workshops in
the U.S. alone;
• And the peripatetic / for-hire / instant novelist, Dan
Hurley, who, at age 14, from the mid-’80s, lugged around
the world an endangered artifact—a portable
"qwerty”—and for a fee of $5 to $10 wrote a 3-
to 4-page "60 second novel" for tourists
“while you wait”!
GENESIS: The MAMMOTH Anthology
of the World’s Great Classic
SHORT-SHORT MASTERPIECES
Top title & Author
COLLECTED FICTIONS
by JORGE LUIS BORGES
Translator: ANDREW HURLEY
Viking © 1998, 565 pps.
THE FIRST 11
• The first “New Journalism” Reporter on the
first on-the-spot reportage on the Greatest Event of All
Time: The Creation, from the Genesis in the Old Testament;
• Jesus of Nazareth and his Parables, from the New
Testament;
• Petronius and his “The Widow of Ephesus”;
• Aesop and his Fabulous Fables;
• The Zen master and his koan “The Muddy
Road”;
• Sappho, the Greek Poet from Lesbos
• The Lady-Poet of Japan and her “eroticon”
• Jorge Luis Borges and his Selected Fictions
• The Anonymous British Bard and his quatrain “O
Western Wind ...”
• The Great Haiku Poets of Japan
• Rabindranath Tagore and his tale “Tell Me A
Story”
“TELL ME A STORY”
A Sampling from Millennia of the
“SHORTSHORTHING”—
• From the OLD TESTAMENT: [quote “The
Creation”]
• From THE NEW TESTAMENT: [quote “The Parable of
the Samaritan”]
• By an ANONYMOUS 18th-Century ENGLISH Bard: [quote
“O Western Wind”]
• by AESOP [quote one of his fables]
• By the GREEK Poet, SAPPHO: [quote one of her
fragments];
• By a ZEN KOAN Poet: [quote “The Muddy Road”]
• A TANAGA by a FILIPINO Poet: [quote “Katawan mong
madudurog ..."]
• By MARICHICO, a Lady Poet from JAPAN: [quote an erotic
poem]
• The AMERICAN Poet, CARL SANDBURG: [quote “The
Fog”]
• A BRITISH Poet, ROBERT BROWNING: [quote “Pippa
Passes”]
• From the World's PUBLIC DOMAIN
• From the YOUNGEST Branch of WORLD LITERATURE IN
ENGLISH: FILIPINO Writing in ENGLISH, 1900-2000
COLLECTIONS OR ANTHOLOGIES OF THE
“SHORTSHORTHING”:
“HALL OF FAME” TITLES
1 * * * COLLECTED FICTIONS
by Jorge Luis Borges
Translator: Andrew Hurley
Viking © 1998, 565 pps.
2 * * * TAKE TEN
New 10-Minute Plays
Editors: Eric Lane & Nina Shengold
Random House © 1997, 336 pps.
3 * * * IN SHORT
A Collection of Brief Creative Non-Fiction
Editors: Judith Kitchen & Mary P. Jone
© 1996, 334 pps.
4 * * * WHO'S WRITING THIS?
Notations on the Authorial “I” w/ Self-Portraits
Editor: Daniel Halpern
Ecco Press, © 1995, 185 pps.
5 * * * The PARISIAN PROWLER
by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE
(Le Spleen de Paris Petits Poemes en prose)
Translator: Edward K. Kaplan
U. of Georgia Press © 1989, 138 pps.
6 * * * SUDDEN FICTION INTERNATIONAL
66 Short-Short Stories
Editors: Robert Shapard & James Thomas
WWNorton © 1989, 342 pps.
7 * * * PALM-OF-THE-HAND STORIES
by Nobel Laureate YASUNARI KAWABATA
Translator: Lane Dunlop & J.M. Holman
Farrar Straus Giroux © 1988, 238 pps.
8 * * * SHORT SHORTS
An Anthology of the Shortest Stories
Editors: Irving Howe & Ilana W. Howe
Bantam Books © 1982, 205 pps.
9 * * * MICROCOSMIC TALES
100 Wondrous Science Fiction Short-Short
Stories—Selected by Isaac Asimov et al.
DAW Books © 1980, 330 pps.
10 * * * IMPERIAL MESSAGES
100 Modern Parables
Editor: Howard Schwartz
Avon Books © 1976, 348 pps.
11 * * * 75 SHORT MASTERPIECES
Stories from the World’s Literature
Editor: Robert B. Goodman
Bantam Books © 1972, 283 pps.
12 * * * THE BOOK OF IMAGINARY BEINGS
by Jorge Luis Borges
Discus Books, Avon © 1969, 256 pps.
13 * * * FICCIONES
by Jorge Luis Borges
Editor: Anthony Kerrigan
Grove Press © 1962, 174 pps.
13 OTHER TITLES
1 * * EXCITABILITY:
Selected Stories, 1986-1996
by Diane Williams
Dalkey Archive Press © 1998, 329 pps.
2 * * SELF-IMITATIONS OF MYSELF
Stories by Gordon Lish
4 Walls 8 Windows © 1997, 334 pps.
3 * * MICRO FICTION
An Anthology of Really Short Stories
Editor: Jerome Stern
WWNorton © 1996, 141 pps.
4 * * ON WITH THE STORY
Stories by John Barth
Little Brown Co. © 1996, 257 pps.
5 * * POETRY-IN-MOTION
100 Poems for the Subways & Buses
Editors: Molly Peacock et al.
WWNorton © 1996, 157 pps
6 * * HOUSES & TRAVELLERS
Prose by WSMerwin
HHolt & Co. © 1994, 213 pps.
7 * * THE MINER'S PALE CHILDREN
Prose by WSMerwin
HHolt & Co. © 1994, 235 pps.
8 * * THE LITTLE ZEN COMPANION
by David Schiller
Workman Publishing © 1994, 389 pps.
9 * * SAPPHO, A GARLAND
The Poems & Fragments of Sappho
Translator: Jim Powell
Farrar Straus Giroux © 1993, 65 pps.
10 * * CONTEMPORARY BASQUE FICTION
An Anthology
Editor: Jesus Maria Lasagabaster
Tr.: Michael Morris
U. of Nevada Press © 1990, 95 pps.
11 * * ZEN FLESH, ZEN BONES
A Collection of Zen & Pre-Zen Writings
Compiler: Paul Reps,
Doubleday © 1989, 175 pps.
12 * * SUDDEN FICTION
American Short-Short Stories
Editor: Robert Shapard & James Thomas
Gibbs-Smith/Peregrine Smith Books © 1986, 263 pps.
13 * * CHINESE FAIRY TALES & FANTASIES
Tr./Editor: Moss Roberts
Pantheon Books © 1979. 259 pps.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: THE “SHORTSHORTHING”
>>>>>>>>>>2000
* Brilliant Silence:
A Book of Paragraphs & Sentences
& Thirteen Very Very Short Stories
by Spencer Holst
Station Hill © 2000, 175 pps.
>>>>>>>>>>1999
* The 60-Second Novelist:
What 22,613 People Taught Me About Life
by Dan Hurley
Health Communications Inc. © 1999, 203 pps.
* Dirty Money & Other Stories
by Ayn Imperato
Manic D Press © 1999, 142 pps.
* In Brief:
Short Takes on the Personal
Editors: Edith Kitchen & Mary P. Jones
WWNorton © 1999, 285 pps.
* The Prose Poem:
An International Journal, vol. 8/99
Editor: Peter Johnson
Providence College © 1999, 169 pps.
• Global City Review:
Laughing Matters, #11/99
Editors: Betsy Osborne & Susan Thomsen
City College of NY ©1999, 187 pps.
>>>>>>>>>>1998
* The Red Shoes & Other Tattered Tales
by Karen Elizabeth Gordon
Dalkey Archive Press © 1998, 192 pps.
* * * Collected Fictions
by Jorge Luis Borges
Translator: Andrew Hurley
Viking © 1998, 565 pps.
* Hampton Shorts:
Fiction Plus
from The Hamptons & The East End)
© 1998, 309 pps.
* * Excitability:
Selected Stories, 1986-1996
by Diane Williams
Dalkey Archive Press © 1998, 329 pps.
* The World’s Shortest Stories
Editor: Steve Moss
Running Press, © 1998, 223 pps.
* Zen Fables for Today:
Stories Inspired by the Zen Masters
by Richard McLean © 1998, 130 pp.
>>>>>>>>>>1997
* The Prose Poem:
An International Journal (vol. 6/’97)
Editor: Peter Johnson © 1997, 123 pps.
* * Self-Imitation of Myself
Stories by Gordon Lish
4 Walls 8 Windows © 1997, 334 pps.
* Certain People & Other Stories
by Roberta Allen
Coffee House Press © 1997, 117 pps.
* Hampton Shorts:
Fiction Plus
from The Hamptons & The East End
Hamptons Literary Publications © 1997, 285 pps.
• Almost No Memory
by Lydia Davis
Farrar Straus Giroux © 1997, 192 pps.
* Flying Horses:
Secret Souls
by Randeane Tetu
Papier-Mache Press © 1997, 127 pps.
* Radios: Short Tales on Life & Culture
by Jerome Stern
WWNorton © 1997, 142 pps.
* * * Take Ten : New 10-Minute Plays
Editors: Eric Lane & Nina Shengold
Random House © 1997, 336 pps.
>>>>>>>>>>1996
• The Red Shoes & Other Tattered Tales
by Karen Elizabeth Gordon
Dalkey Archive Press © 1996, 192 pps.
* The Price of the Ride
by Thomas Farber
Creative Arts Book Co. © 1996, 35 pps.
* Sunrise : Day One, Year 2000
by Naseem Javed
Linkbridge Publishing © 1996, no paging
* * Micro Fiction:
An Anthology of Really Short Stories
Editor: Jerome Stern
WWNorton © 1996, 141 pps.
* Sudden Fiction (Continued)
Editors: Robert Shapard & James Thomas
WWNorton © 1996, 311 pps.
* * * In Short:
A Collection of Brief Creative Non-Fiction
Editors: Judith Kitchen & Mary P. Jones
© 1996, 334 pps.
* * Instant Applause
(vol. II): 30 Very Short Complete Plays
Blizzard Publishing © 1996, 252 pps.
* * On with the Story
Stories by John Barth
Little Brown Co. © 1996, 257 pps.
* The Kingdom of Heaven:
88 Palm-of-the-Hand Stories
by John Gould
Ekstasis Editions © 1996, 119 pps.
* Stories in the Worst Way
by Gary Lutz
AAKnopf © 1996, 162 pps.
* * Poetry in Motion:
100 Poems for the Subways & Buses
Editors: Molly Peacock et al.
WWNorton © 1996, 157 pps.
>>>>>>>>>>1995
* * * Who’s Writing This?:
Notations on the Authorial “I” w/ Self-Portraits
Editor: Daniel Halpern
Ecco Press © 1995, 185 pps.
* Snow
by Lisbeth Mark & Babs Lefrak
Perigee Books © 1995, 121 pps.
* Pathways: Restful Meditations
Zen Haiku by Gary Crounse
© 1995, 62 pps.
>>>>>>>>>>1994
* * Houses & Travellers: Prose
by WSMerwin
HHolt & Co. © 1994, 213 pps.
* The Wisdom of Ancient Greece
Compiler: Jacques Lacarriere
Abbeville Press © 1994, no paging
* * The Miner’s Pale Children
Prose by WSMerwin
HHolt & Co. © 1994, 235 pps.
* Instant Applause:
26 Very Short Complete Plays
Blizzard Publishing © 1994, 185 pps.
* Minimal Fictions
by Richard Kostelanetz
Asylum Arts © 1994, 103 pps.
* The Wisdom of Zen
Compiler: Marc de Smedt
Abbeville Press © 1994, no paging
* * The Little Zen Companion
by David Schiller
Workman Publishing © 1994, 389 pps.
>>>>>>>>>>1993
* Global City Review
Paradise Lost (Fall ‘93/No. 2)
City College of NY © 1993, 120 pps.
* Amazon Dream
by Roberta Allen
City Lights © 1993, 181 pps.
* A Robber in the House
by Jessica Treat
Coffee House Press © 1993, 130 pps.
* * Sappho: A Garland---
The Poems & Fragments of Sappho
Translator: Jim Powell
Farrar Straus Giroux © 1993, 65 pps.
>>>>>>>>>>1992
* The Daughter
by Roberta Allen
Automedia © 1992, 117 pps.
* Conjunctions: Fables, Yarns, Fairy Tales
Editor: Bradford Morrow
Bard College © 1992, 370 pps.
* * Flash Fiction: 72 Very Short Stories
Editors: James Thomas et al.
WWNorton © 1992, 224 pps.
* The Possibilities of Story (vol. 2)
Editor: J.R. (Tim) Struthers
McGraw-Hill © 1992, 239 pps.
>>>>>>>>>>1991
* A Modern Way to Die:
Small Stories & Microtales
by Peter Wortsman
Fromm International Publishing
© 1991, 221 pps.
>>>>>>>>>>>1990
* Mississipi Review
Special Issue: Beginnings (vol. 18/No. 2&3)
U. of Southern Mississippi © 1990, 154 pps.
* Flash Fiction (Where Genres Collide):
Brief, Surprising Glimpses of Intimate Literary Parts
Editor: Maggie Roth © 1990, 176 pps.
* Global City Review (Issue #11/1999)
Issue Editors: Betsy Osborn & Susan Thames
© 1990, 187 pps.
* Cat Scratch Fever: Fictions
by Robert Kelly
McPherson & Co. © 1990, 150 pps.
* * Contemporary Basque Fiction: An Anthology
Editor: Jesus Maria Lasagabaster
Tr.: Michael Morris
U. of Nevada Press © 1990, 95 pps.
>>>>>>>>>>1989
* * Zen Flesh, Zen Bones:
A Collection of Zen & Pre-Zen Writings
Compiler: Paul Reps
Doubleday © 1989, 175 pps.
* * * The Parisian Prowler
by Charles Baudelaire
(Le Spleen de Paris Petits Poemes en prose)
Translator: Edward K. Kaplan
U. of Georgia Press © 1989, 138 pps.
* * * Sudden Fiction International
66 Short-Short Stories
Editors: Robert Shapard & James Thomas
WWNorton © 1989, 342 pps.
>>>>>>>>>>1988
* * * Palm-of-the-Hand Stories
by Yasunari Kawabata
Translator: Lane Dunlop & J.M. Holman
North Point Press
Farrar Straus Giroux © 1988, 238 pps.
* Mississippi Review
(MR 47/48), vol. 16, Nos. 2&3
U. of Southern Mississippi © 1988, 288 pps.
* One Thousand Avant-Garde Plays
by Kenneth Koch
AAKnopf © 1988, 166 pps.
>>>>>>>>>>1987
* Goodnight, Sisters: Selected Writings (vol. 2)
by Nell McCafferty
Attic Press © 1987, 185 pps.
>>>>>>>>>>1986
* * Sudden Fiction:
American Short-Short Stories
Editor: Robert Shapard & James Thomas
Gibbs-Smith/Peregrine Smith Books
© 1986, 263 pps.
• Break It Down: Stories
by Lydia Davis
Farrar Straus Giroux, NY © 1986, 177 pps.
>>>>>>>>>>>1985
* The Ensemble Studio Theatre : Marathon 1984
by David Mamet et al.
Broadway Play Publishing © 1985, 94 pps.
* Short Pieces from the New Dramatists
Editor: Stan Chervin
Broadway Play Publishing © 1985, 92 pps.
* Mississippi Review (40/41 Winter 1985)
U. of South Mississippi © 1985, 152 pps.
>>>>>>>>>>1983
* 24 Hours-PM
Editor: Oliver Hailey
Dramatists Play Service © 1983, 56 pps.
>>>>>>>>>>1982
* * * Short Shorts:
An Anthology of the Shortest Stories
Editors: Irving Howe & Ilana? W. Howe
Bantam Books © 1982, 205 pps.
>>>>>>>>>>1982
* * * Microcosmic Tales:
100 Wondrous Science-Fiction Short-Short Stories
Selected by Isaac Asimov et al.
DAW Books © 1980, 330 pps.
>>>>>>>>>>1979
* * Chinese Fairy Tales & Fantasies
Tr./Editor: Moss Roberts
Pantheon Books © 1979. 259 pps.
>>>>>>>>>>1976
* * * Imperial Messages:
100 Modern Parables
Editor: Howard Schwartz
Avon Books © 1976, 348 pps.
>>>>>>>>>>1972
* * * 75 Short Masterpieces:
Stories from the World’s Literature
Editor: Robert B. Goodman
Bantam Books © 1972, 283 pps.
>>>>>>>>>>1969
* * * The Book of Imaginary Beings
by Jorge Luis Borges
Discus Books/Avon © 1969, 256 pps.
>>>>>>>>>>>1966
* * The Poems of Sappho
Translator: Suzy Q. Groden
Bobbs Merrill Co. © 1966, 153 pps.
>>>>>>>>>>1962
* * * Ficciones
by Jorge Luis Borges
Editor: Anthony Kerrigan
Grove Press © 1962, 174 pps.
>>>>>>>>>>1958
* * Sappho: A New Translation
by Mary Barnard
U. of California Press © 1958, 106 pps.
