Precursors : sixteenth to eighteenth centuries ; Girolamo Gardano ; Michel de Montaigne ; Baltasar Gracian ; Francois de la Rochefoucauld ; John Aubrey ; Jean de la Bruyere ; Louis-Sebastien Mercier ; Chamfort ; Joseph Joubert ; William Blake ; August Wilhelm Schlegel ; Novalis ; Friedrich Schlegel ; Giacomo Leopardi
Modern shorts : nineteenth to twenty-first centuries ; Louis "Aloysius" Bertrand ; Edgar Allan Poe ; Charles Baudelaire ; Ambrose Bierce ; Stephane Mallarme ; Boleslaw Prus ; Kate Chopin ; Robert Louis Stevenson ; Arthur Rimbaud ; Oscar Wilde ; Peter Altenberg ; Felix Feneon ; Jules Renard ; Ruben Dario ; Marcel Schwob ; Paul Valery ; Macedonio Fernandez ; Karl Kraus ; Gertrude Stein ; Sherwood Anderson ; Max Jacob ; Filippo Tommaso Marinetti ; Lord Dunsany ; Edward Thomas ; Robert Walser ; Guillaume Apollinaire ; Robert Musil ; Juan Ramon Jimenez ; Virginia Woolf ; Franz Kafka ; Ernst Bloch ; T.S. Eliot ; Fernando Pessoa ; Ramon Gomez de la Serna ; Walter Benjamin ; Joseph Roth ; James Thurber ; Jean Toomer ; Paul Eluard ; Benjamin Peret ; Mikhail Zoshchenko ; Paul Colinet ; Jorge Luis Borges ; Henri Michaux ; Francis Ponge ; Nathalie Sarraute ; Andreas Embirikos ; Laura (Riding) Jackson ; Luis Cernuda ; Malcolm de Chazal ; Raymond Queneau ; Fillia ; Daniil Kharms ; Stanley Kunitz ; Samuel Beckett ; Rene Char ; Leonardo Sinisgalli ; Enrique Anderson Imbert ; E.M. Cioran ; Max Frisch ; Czeslaw Milosz ; Kenneth Patchen ; John Cage ; Aime Cesaire ; David Ignatow ; Octavio Paz ; Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn ; Paul Celan ; Clarice Lispector ; Augusto Monterroso ; Giorgio Manganelli ; Italo Calvino ; Zbigniew Herbert ; Bob Kaufman ; Kenneth Koch ; Robert Bly ; Christopher Middleton ; Frank O'Hara ; John Ashbery ; W.S. Merwin ; Charles Tomlinson ; James Wright ; Gael Turnbull ; Fielding Dawson ; Donald Barthelme ; Thomas Bernhard ; Tomas Transtromer ; Vern Rutsala ; Sonia Sanchez ; Mark Strand ; Jack Anderson ; Michael Benedikt ; Russell Edson ; Helga Novak ; Steven Schrader ; David Young ; Gianni Celati ; Moacyr Scliar ; Charles Simic ; Luisa Valenzuela ; Margaret Atwood ; Seamus Heaney ; Alex Kuo ; Robert Haas ; Lyn Hejinian ; John Edgar Wideman ; Antonio Lobo Antunes ; Ron Padgett ; Rikki Ducornet ; Phillip Lopate ; Stephen Mitchell ; Michael Ondaatje ; James Tate ; Lynne Tillman ; Paul Violi ; Scott Russell Sanders ; Diane Williams ; Rae Armantrout ; Lou Beach ; Lydia Davis ; Yusef Komunyakaa ; Gregory Orr ; David Lehman ; Christine Schutt ; Lynn Emanuel ; Jamaica Kincaid ; Barry yourgrau ; Anne Carson ; Carolyn Forche ; John Yau ; Meena Alexander ; Bernard Cooper ; Joy Harjo ; Amy Hempel ; Peter Johnson ; Ana Maria Shua ; Maxine Chernoff ; Ray Gonzalez ; Jean-Michel Maulpoix ; Naomi Shihab Nye ; Jayne Anne Phillips ; Peter Wortsman ; Harryette Mullen ; Aleida Rodriguez ; Thylias Moss ; Helen Klein Ross ; Marilyn Chin ; Kimiko Hahn ; Stacey Harwood ; Gary Lutz ; Michael Martone ; Susan Wheeler ; Dionisio D. Martinez ; Amy Newman ; Dawn Raffel ; Sharan Strange ; Denise Duhamel ; Campbell McGrath ; Andrej Blatnik ; Claudia Rankine ; Joe Wenderoth ; Etgar Keret ; Ben Marcus ; Kim White ; Kim Chinquee ; Dawn Lundy Martin ; Deb Olin Unferth ; Aimee Bender ; Dave Eggers ; J. Robert Lennon ; Catherine Wing ; Sonya Chung ; Liliana Blum ; Sarah Manguso ; Gabrielle Calvocoressi ; Ben Lerner ; Craig Morgan Teicher ; Ann Dewitt ; Traci Brimhall ; Amelia Gray.
Those Things in which I Take Pleasure / Girolamo Cardano
Something Lacking in Our Civil Administrations / Michel De Montaigne
Cancel the Dedication / Baltasar Gracian
"Passion often turns the cleverest man ..."
"In the human heart, passions ..."
"Self-interest speaks ..."
"We often forgive ..." / Francois de la Rochefoucauld
William Shakespeare / John Aubrey
"There is nothing that brings a man ..."
"If you could go into those kitchens ..."
"The people of Paris ..."
"It is harder to make one's name ..."
"What's that you say? ..."
"The things we have most longed for ..." / Jean de la Bruyere
Balcony / Louis-Sebastien Mercier
"Considering the general level of literature ..."
"During a siege a water carrier ..."
"The Comtesse de Boufflers ..."
"In M. de Machaut's time ..."
"Society is made up of two great classes ..." / Chamfort
"The silence of the fields ..."
"Pleasures are always ..."
"Forgetfulness of all earthly things ..."
"Those useless phrases ..."
"To finish! ..." / Joseph Joubert
"Eternity is in love ..."
"Exuberance ..." / William Blake
"Nothing is more pitiful ..."
"The story goes that Klopstock ..." / August Wilhelm Schlegel
"One can only become a philosopher ..."
"Publishing is to thinking ..."
"The history of the first Roman Caesars ..." / Friedrich Schlegel
"He put on eyeglasses ..."
"A house hanging in the air ..."
"For the 'Manual of Practical Philosophy' ..."
"We do not just become impervious ..." / Giacomo Leopardi
MODERN SHORTS: NINETEENTH TO TWENTY-FIRST CENTURIES
The Song of the Mask / Louis "Aloysius" Bertrand
"I believe that Hannibal ..."
"I make no exception ..."
"The Swedenborgians inform me ..."
printed ones especially ..."
"All that the man of genius demands ..."
"After reading all that has been written ..."
Get Drunk / Charles Baudelaire
The Pavior / Ambrose Bierce
Reminiscence / Stephane Mallarme
Mold of the Earth / Boleslaw Prus
The Penitent / Robert Louis Stevenson
Traveling / Peter Altenberg
"On the doorstep of the rectory ..."
"Satagnan, grape picker ..."
"A bottle floated by ..." / Felix Feneon
The Cage Without Birds / Jules Renard
Juan Bueno's Losses / Ruben Dario
Cyril Tourneur: Tragic Poet / Marcel Schwob
Last Visit to Mallarme / Paul Valery
A Novel for Readers with Nerves of Steel / Macedonio Fernandez
"A pretty little girl hears ..."
"Aphorisms are never congruent ..."
"My wish that my things be read twice ..." / Karl Kraus
Man Walking Alone / Sherwood Anderson
The Beggar Woman of Naples
Reconstruction / Max Jacob
The Automotive Kill (10th Letter to Rose of Belgrade) / Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
The Demagogue and the Demi-Monde / Lord Dunsany
One Sail at Sea /Edward Thomas
A Little Ramble / Robert Walser
Little Recipes from Modern Magic / Guillaume Apollinaire
Clearhearing / Robert Musil
Long Stories / Juan Ramon Jimenez
A Haunted House / Virginia Woolf
Disappointment with Amusement / Ernst Bloch
"I went into the barbershop as usual ..." / Fernando Pessoa
"The girl with a hoop ..."
"At night on a lonely train ..."
"When we go by a jail ..."
"The hardest fish ..." / Ramon Gomez de la Serna
Caution: Steps / Walter Benjamin
Rest While Watching the Demolition / Joseph Roth
Variations on the Theme / James Thurber
"Sleep that is singing ..."
"You've read everything ..."
"When the road is ..." / Paul Eluard and Benjamin Peret
Fantasy Shirt / Mikhail Zoshchenko
The Lobster / Paul Colinet
Borges and I / Jorge Luis Borges
My Pastimes / Henri Michaux
The Pleasures of the Door
"During his very well attended lectures ..." / Nathalie Sarraute
Completion of Freighter Steamboat / Andreas Embirikos
How Came It About? / Laura (Riding) Jackson
"The mouth is the kind of fruit ..."
"The emptied container ..."
"Sudden strong feeling ..."
"Denial is born ..." / Malcolm de Chazal
A Story of Your Own / Raymond Queneau
New Year's Eve Dinner / Fillia
"At two o'clock on Nevsky Prospect ..." / Daniil Kharms
The Old Darned Man / Stanley Kunitz
One Evening / Samuel Beckett
Van Gogh's Haunts / Rene Char
We're No Longer Punctual / Leonardo Sinisgalli
Dialogue with the Pursuer / Enrique Anderson Imbert
"That uncertain feeling ..."
"A philosophical vogue ..."
"I knew something about her ..."
"The secret of my adaptation ..." / E.M. Cioran
Christopher Robin / Czeslaw Milosz
You're All Nuts / Kenneth Patchen
"One evening when I was ..."
"Morris Graves used to have ..."
880-01 Jayne Anne Phillips
Ibsen's Hat / Peter Wortsman
We Are Not Responsible / Harryette Mullen
History / Aleida Rodriguez
Renegade Angels / Thylias Moss
Birth, Copulation, Death / Helen Klein Ross
Contributors' Notes / Stacey Harwood
Contributor's Note / Michael Martone
Clock Radio / Susan Wheeler
Homage to Li Po / Dionisio D. Martinez
"1 January, Dear Editor ..." / Amy Newman
Near Taurus / Dawn Raffel
The Factory / Saran Strange
Healing Pies / Denise Duhamel
Philadelphia / Campbell McGrath
Sunday Dinners / Andrej Blatnik
"Mr. Tools, for a while ..." / Claudia Rankine
In Response to the Disciplinary Action Taken Against Me by the Human Resource Manager / Joe Wenderoth
What Do We Have in Our Pockets? / Etgar Keret
Arm, in Biology / Ben Marcus
"If there is prayer ..." / Dawn Lundy Martin
Dead Roads / J. Robert Lennon
Possible Audiences for this Work / Catherine Wing
Getting It Right / Sonya Chung
"Inside the crawl space ..." / Sarah Manguso
Pastoral / Gabrielle Calvocorressi
"The detective pushes red tacks ..."
"She will never want for money ..." / Ben Lerner
The Wolves / Craig Morgan Teicher
