Invisible Cities

Invisible Cities (Italian: Le città invisibili) is a novel by Italian writer Italo Calvino. It was published in Italy in 1972 by Giulio Einaudi Editore.

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The book explores imagination and the imaginable through the descriptions of cities by an explorer, Marco Polo. The book is framed as a conversation between the aging and busy emperor Kublai Khan, who constantly has merchants coming to describe the state of his expanding and vast empire, and Polo. The majority of the book consists of brief prose poems describing 55 cities, apparently narrated by Polo. Short dialogues between the two characters are interspersed every five to ten cities and are used to discuss various ideas presented by the cities on a wide range of topics including linguistics and human nature. The book is structured around an interlocking pattern of numbered sections, while the length of each section's title graphically outlines a continuously oscillating sine wave, or perhaps a city skyline. The interludes between Khan and Polo are no less poetically constructed than the cities, and form a framing device that plays with the natural complexity of language and stories.

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Invisible Cities

by: Beat Connection

Well, couldn't have guessed you'd be down
Well, couldn't have guessed
Frame a rhyme. A light to guide you home
Across the fire against the night
Align pictures to take me back
I wish but everybody's guess is as good as mine
Frame a rhyme. A light to guide you home
Across the fire against the night
Align pictures to take me back
I wish but everybody's guess is as good as mine
I never found out why
Sky busy pray on sitting days
It make me want to sigh
Seems to be too beautiful to me
To wanna see somewhere else
But I can't help myself
Wanted to stay inside, close eyes
In the day I'm closer to the end
Frame a rhyme. A light to guide you home
Across the fire against the night
Align pictures to take me back
I wish but everybody's guess is as good as mine




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