Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-245).
One. Voice of the "Cloud-moving Wind" -- Gray rapture -- Melons -- Black birds -- Courage and silence -- How could such misery ever be retold? -- Two. Liberal white boy -- The last mambo -- Spirits of exile -- The death of the mother of Victoria Greene -- The true story -- forgetting -- Understanding Ponce -- Three. Sophisticated trombone -- Goya, Bacon and "The night of the living dead" -- Sleet -- Becoming Ovid -- Marginal notes: an islander's view -- Was Homer happy?