Dinner with Fish and Mirrors

Milankova belongs to the first generation of poets from central and eastern Europe who were influenced by anti-establishment poetries - particularly from the USA - such as the Beats and, later on, the New York poets. Milankova acted as a translator for Allen Ginsberg through a tour of the former Yugoslavia and subsequently worked with him during a summer workshop in Colorado. In the mid nineteen-eighties she was very active in alternative theatre and street performances. She now earns a living as teacher of English in a secondary school.

• Introduction / 8, Hadrian, to a Likeness, Hidden / 15, An Extra Dimension / 17, Commands / 19, Exodus / 21, A Letter to the Provincial Governor / 23, Letters from Persia / 25, To an Unknown Nobleman / 27, The Tenth , I dare not say who that might be / 29, To John, in the Wilderness / 31, A Shadow Before my Body / 33, The Second Coming / 35, The Baltic Profile / 37, Visitor / 37, Noon in a Glass Bell / 39, A Glass Afternoon / 41, Glass Property / 43, Dinner with Fish and Mirrors / 45, Variation on a Theme / 47, Masquerade / 49, I Have Forebodings / 53, In the White Corners, while They Crucified Me / 55, No, it Wasn't Raining, Thus Spoke Cassandra / 57, Cassandra in a Garden with Orchids / 59, Requiem / 61, "My Cretan sisters" / 65, Arrival of the Twins / 67, To the Twin, the First Advice Not to Enter Twighlight And Plants / 69, The Tall Twin / 71, The Hallucinations of the God Hermes / 73, Maestro / 75, To One who is Leaving / 77, The World is Deep / 79, Somnambulist / 79, The Geography of Near Hope / 81, 36, the Richmond Bus / 83, Sorella Fiorentina / 87, Cleopatra, the Last Speech / 89, Call Me Atlantis / 91, In My Heart I Have the Spirit or How I Didn't Become Concrete / 93, Hadrian, to Sense and Form / 95, To a Geometry Teacher / 97, Paradise / 99, Biographical Notes / 101