CONTENTS: (from Libro do entroido) To flee from so much natal love; The English Cemetery; Serpent with Wings; Castro de Elviña; (from Balada nas praias do oeste) Widows of the Living; Ballad on the Western Beaches; Dark Is Life, Dark Death; Incio; Ferrol; On your skin of a boat; I went down to hope and turned over autumn; Lower Miño Days; Promise; (from Mohicania) Farewell; Joshua Slocum's Trip round the World; Atlantic Avenue; The Lonely Seafarer's Song; The Wood's Army; Mother Earth; Country Suicide; Weight on the Head; Celtic Apocalypse; Omen and Legend; Blues; The Black Earth; Radiophony; Beirut; Letter to a Son; Haiku; Dakar; (from Ningún cisne) A Thousand; She accuses me of having no feelings; Can you hear me? I'm in a phone box; Yes, I'm still here; Power; Arzúa: Snowfall of '87; Lyric; Culture; Welcome; Terrorism; Television; Hunting; Story; Stop; Café; Cricket; New Zealand; Childhood; Shadow;

CONTENTS: Xulio López Valcárcel, Absorbed in the Afternoon Grandmother Anticipates Its End; Empty House; You inhabit streets of fear, searching; Song of Autumn; Contribution to a Sketch of Absence; White Space; A Poetics of the Self (Words against Time); Dawn; An Hour of Fullness; The Sea in My Heart; Adagio, Last Offering; Pilar Pallarés, Defeat's Defeat; sometimes only a broken statue remains; In the afternoon, with a dog and a book; to fall asleep in the night of your hair; The drowned woman's lips; here I leave my knowing; Here I am father weeping gently; Lisbon Revisited; so it is and so it may be; The Cunning of a Cat; In the brilliance of the hours; Ramiro Fonte, Vita nuova; Plaza of the World; Promise; Before You Were a Traveler; The Rose; Names for Going Back; The Photograph; Francisco Añón; The Shadow of Guilt; An Unpublished Poem of Alvaro Cunqueiro; Treasures.