Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Varieties of Light

1. "Thy blackness is a spark"

2. "Birth was the death of him"

3. Palindromes

4. Beware of Enigmas

5. Is This a Dream?

6. Interlude: All and Nothing

7. Fin' Amors

8. Diaphanous

9. Entre Deux

Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Ann Smock is Professor Emerita of French at the University California, Berkeley. She is the author of What Is There to Say? and Double Dealing.