At Dusk is a sewn hardcover, limited to 235 hand numbered copies, 120 pp with illustrated end papers, a full-color frontispiece, two-colour text, illustrated canvas boards.
In Belgrade, a young teacher writes jagged Gnostic canticles; in Tbilisi, an old visionary is taken to an asylum. The white dust rises on summer roads; the black leaves of autumn await. The magisters of literature sense the twilight steal upon them; and even young dreamers see shadows upon their path. Some say they are in the last days of Europe. It is certain the known world is shimmering on the brink. And at dusk, things change . . .
Mark Valentine’s At Dusk is a homage to the vanquished and lost voices of the poets of interwar Europe, in a powerful form of his own.
Contents
I. Cavafy
His Visiting Cards Are Faded
II. Bacovia
Always the Crows
III. Kerestedjian (Lubin)
Among Strange Streets
IV. Kolmar
Their Strange Beasts
V. Milov
A Lantern Head
VI. Czechowicz
The White Dust
VII. Reverdy
This Subtle Impress
VIII. Dizdar
A Searcher of Stones
IX. Paavolainen
Ensombred
X. Radnoti
A Sly Angel
XI. Desnos
The Hatless Strangers
XII. Antoniou
The White Chariots
XIII. Veli
Some Mustard
XIV. Van Ostaijen
Gnostic Comedian
XV. Saba
A Boy on a Gate
XVI. Pessoa
Black Lilies
XVII. Ulinover
Sabbath Candles
XVIII. Espanca
She Called Saudade Her Sister
XIX. Machado
These Footfalls
XX. Nezval
The Umbrellas of Prague
XXI. Jacob
The Rose Chasuble
XXII. Pagan Vagabond
The Tramp of Eternity
XXIII. Marsman
The Black Boat
XXIV. Antonych
The Other Tongue
XXV. Kosovel
No More Need Be Said
XXVI. Zollinger
The Incense of Artemis
XXVII. Talvik
The Blighted Leaves
XXVIII. Nastasijevic
The Epitaphs of Moments
XXIX. Riff
Chanted By Azariah
XXX. De L. Milosz
The Sunset is a Salamander
XXXI. Meerbaum-Eisinger
She Walked in the Twilight of Czernowitz
XXXII. Galaktion
He Consorted With Seraphs
XXXIII. Char
To Respire is to Revolt
XXXIV. Onofri
Exquisite Orphist
XXXV. Ziemelnicks
Poppy-haunted
