Brief report to an academy
Volcano and poem
Breaking the body
Childhood in the diorama
Miniatures
The age of deep sea fish
Darwin's eyes
My Babylonish brain
To Lord Chandos : a fax from the future
"Q" as in quotation
On the question of style
The poem and its secret
Why live without writing
Accented time
The bars of Atlantis
Madonna and Venus
Sunday of life
The vanished square
A little blue girl
The thinker's voice
The stroke of Apollo
In the name of extremes
A tear for Petronius
Brother Juvenal
Between antiquity and X.
The bars of Atlantis : selected essays by Durs Grünbein. ISBN 9780374260620. Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2010. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.