<DIV><p>"So extraordinarily clear, so connected to the primitive I imagine I am . . . participating in a vision already lost to the world." ?William Carlos Williams</p><p>The microgram is collected, pondered upon, and defined in this quiet classic of Ecuadorian literature.</p><p><I>In the alphabet of things<BR>the snail invents<BR>the penultimate letter.</I></p><p><B>Jorge Carrera Andrade</B> (1902?1978) has been recognized as one of the most important Latin American poets of the twentieth century.</p><p><B>Alejandro de Acosta</B> and <B>Joshua Beckman</B> co-translated Carlos Oquendo de Amat's<I> 5 Meters of Poems</I>. Beckman's translation of Tomaž Šalamun's <I>Poker</I> was a finalist for the PEN/America Poetry in Translation Award.</p><BR></DIV>