Night Journey
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Night Journey

  1. 144 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Night Journey

About this book

One of South America's most celebrated contemporary poets takes us on a fantastic voyage to mysterious lands and seas, into the psyche, and to the heart of the poem itself. Night Journey is the English-language debut of the work that won María Negroni an Argentine National Book Award. It is a book of dreams--dreams she renders with surreal beauty that recalls the work of her compatriot Alejandra Pizarnik, with the penetrating subtlety of Borges and Calvino.


In sixty-two tightly woven prose poems, Negroni deftly infuses haunting imagery with an ironic, personal spirituality. Effortlessly she navigates the nameless subject to the slopes of the Himalayas, to a bar in Buenos Aires, through war, from icy Scandinavian landscapes to the tropics, across seas, toward a cemetery in the wake of Napoleon's hearse, by train, by taxis headed in unrequested directions, past mirrors and birds, between life and death.



Night Journey reflects a mastery of a traditional form while brilliantly expressing a modern condition: the multicultural, multifaceted individual, ever in motion. Displacement abounds: a "medieval tabard" where a pelvis should be, a "lipless grin," a "beach severed from the ocean." In one poem "nomadic cities" whisk past. In another, smiling cockroaches loom in a visiting mother's eyes.


Anne Twitty, whose elegant translations are accompanied by the Spanish originals, remarks in her preface that the book's "indomitable literary intelligence" subdues an unspoken terror--helplessness. Yet, as observed by the angel Gabriel, the consoling voice of wisdom, only by accepting the journey for what it is can one discover its "hidden splendor," the "invisible center of the poem." As readers of this magnificent work will discover, this is a journey that, because its every fleeting image conjures a thousand words of fertile silence, can be savored again and again.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Kidnapped by the Inexorable: Translator's Introduction
  6. Dedication
  7. Skeletons under the Sky
  8. Cage in Bloom
  9. Catastrophe
  10. Equestrienne and Officer
  11. The Marble Forests
  12. Loss
  13. Gabriel
  14. Heraldry
  15. Van Gogh
  16. The Great Watcher
  17. Mirror of the Soul
  18. Nomadic City
  19. The Father
  20. Dialogue with Gabriel I
  21. Lido
  22. The Visit
  23. The Telephone Book
  24. The Map of Time
  25. Napoleon II
  26. The Lovers
  27. The Eyes of God
  28. The White Horse
  29. The Baby
  30. The Three Madonnas
  31. Tout cherche tout
  32. Letter to Sèvres
  33. The Infinite Dictionary
  34. Windows on the Century
  35. Dialogue with Gabriel II
  36. The Two Heavens
  37. Fata Morgana
  38. New Jersey
  39. Rosamundi
  40. Crossroads
  41. Blindness
  42. Midgard
  43. Clothes
  44. The Deluge
  45. Sleeping Beauty
  46. The Journey
  47. Die Zeit
  48. Dialogue with Gabriel III
  49. Theory of Light
  50. Threads of Being
  51. Over Exposure
  52. Eternity
  53. The Bears
  54. The World Doesn’t End
  55. Fairytale
  56. Terra Incognita
  57. Epidural and Plunder
  58. Hieros gamos
  59. Dialogue with Gabriel IV
  60. Simurgh
  61. The Book of Being
  62. The Roof of the World
  63. The Anonymous Game
  64. Hurqãlyã, Peregrine City
  65. Autumn Skies
  66. Theory of a Good Death
  67. Cassandra
  68. Letter to Myself
  69. Esqueletos bajo el cielo
  70. La jaula en flor
  71. Catástrofe
  72. Ecuyère y militar
  73. Los bosques de mármol
  74. La pérdida
  75. Gabriel
  76. Heráldica
  77. Van Gogh
  78. The Great Watcher
  79. El espejo del alma
  80. La ciudad nómade
  81. El padre
  82. Diálogo con Gabriel I
  83. Lido
  84. La visita
  85. La guía telefónica
  86. El mapa del Tiempo
  87. Napoleón II
  88. Los amantes
  89. Los ojos de Dios
  90. El caballo blanco
  91. El bebé
  92. Las tres madonas
  93. Tout cherche tout
  94. Carta a Sèvres
  95. El diccionario infinito
  96. Las ventanas del siglo
  97. Diálogo con Gabriel II
  98. Los dos cielos
  99. Fata Morgana
  100. New Jersey
  101. Rosamundi
  102. Encrucijada
  103. La ceguera
  104. Midgard
  105. La ropa
  106. El diluvio
  107. Sleeping Beauty
  108. El viaje
  109. Die Zeit
  110. Diálogo con Gabriel III
  111. Teoría de la luz
  112. Los hilos del ser
  113. Over Exposure
  114. Eternidad
  115. Los osos
  116. El mundo no termina
  117. Cuento de hadas
  118. Terra Incognita
  119. Peridural y despojo
  120. Hieros gamos
  121. Diálogo con Gabriel IV
  122. Simurgh
  123. El libro de los seres
  124. El techo del mundo
  125. El juego sin nombre
  126. Hurqãlyã, ciudad peregrina
  127. Los cielos del otoño
  128. Teoría del buen morir
  129. Casandra
  130. Carta a mí misma