Summary

In “Dream (2)”, the narrator recounts the rest of his dream about the seventeen year old boy. The boy meanders the streets of the dark city and walks into the movie theater. He stands in the back and smokes a cigarette as he watches the film.

Bibliano Macaduck and Rigoberto discuss a poem in “The Oarsman of Fate”. The narrator does not understand the verses and the other man explains the symbolic imagery of Walt Whitman’s daughters and the author’s commentary upon women and Amazonians.

In the following chapter, “Cherniakovski Presents Two Images of India at the University of Concepcion Poetry Workshop, 1972”, the narrator attends a lecture by Cherniakovski. The poet presents images from India, taken by Frederic Chester and Dr. (Mrs.) Amalfitano. During the slide show, he explains that the man in the...