The Crossing Fee

Synopsis

Reimagines Myth, History, And Literature, And Draws Upon The Poet's Travels And Experiences As A Doctor While Working In Some Of The Most Remote Parts Of The World. Psalm 7 -- A Letdown 8 -- Victor Segalen 9 -- Lenz 10 -- Memories Of Holland 11 -- Jque Viva Mexico! 12 -- Luther's Fig-tree 13 -- Promises, Promises 14 -- Statistics And The Novel 15 -- Ear Eats Mouth 16 -- Household Gods 17 -- Germany 1636 18 -- Skin Deep 19 -- Turin 20 -- Theogony 21 -- Pyro Tyro 22 -- Mediation And The Sunflower 23 -- Anorexia 24 -- Trauma Years 25 -- Robert Musil To His Critics 26 -- Names And Numbers 27 -- Two Propositions About Time 28 -- Quartz 29 -- Buddha For The Born Again 30 -- Sympathy In Silver City 31 -- Telephone From The Beyond 32 -- Viaticum 33 -- Baudelaire: The Ransom 34 -- An Old Film 35 -- Gospel Commentary Nightmare 36 -- Larval Elements 37 -- Victor Hugo: Open Windows 38 -- Flaubert In Egypt 39 -- Ode To The Potato 40 -- A House In The Var 41 -- The Reef Of Natural Causes 42 -- The Desert In Them 43 -- Blossom 44 -- Midsummer On Shetland 45 -- Real Estate 46 -- Woodwork As An Act Of Ostension 47 -- At Mummelsee 48 -- Cave-diving In The Pacific 49 -- Lepidoptera 50 -- Teacher's Day, Singapore 51 -- Flying Garuda Over Java 52 -- Primal Unction 54 -- The Crossing Fee 55 -- Kite-flyers Of Cengkareng 56 -- Iain Bamforth.