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Authors: Gilbert Sorrentino

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COLOPHON

Lunar Follies
was designed at Coffee House Press in the Warehouse District of downtown Minneapolis. The text is set in Perpetua with Bittersweet titles.

OTHER BOOKS BY GILBERT SORRENTINO

POETRY

The Darkness Surrounds Us

Black and White

The Perfect Fiction

Corrosive Sublimate

A Dozen Oranges

Sulpiciae Elegidia: Elegiacs of Sulpicia

White Sail

The Orangery

Selected Poems 1958-1980

FICTION

The Sky Changes

Steelwork

Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things

Flawless Play Restored: The Masque of Fungo

Splendide-Hôtel

Mulligan Stew

Aberration of Starlight

Crystal Vision

Blue Pastoral

Odd Number

A Beehive Arranged on Humane Principles

Rose Theatre

Misterioso

Under the Shadow

Red the Fiend

Pack of Lies

Gold Fools

Little Casino

The Moon in Its Flight

ESSAYS

Something Said

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Gilbert Sorrentino: A Descriptive Bibliography by William McPheron

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Table of Contents

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Half Title Page

Contents

Alphonsus

Alpine Valley

Alps

Altai Scarp

Appennines

Archimedes

Aristoteles

Carpathians

Catharina

Caucasus Mountains

Clavius

Cleomedes

Copernicus

Cordillera Mountains

Eastern Sea

Eratosthenes

Fra Mauro

Gassendi

Grimaldi

Humboldt

Hyginus Rille

J. Herschel

Joliot-Curie

Jules Verne

Jura Mountains

Laker of Dreams

Langrenus

Longomontanus

Moscow Sea

Neper

Ocean of Storms

Petavius

Plato

Posidonius

Ptolemaeus

Purbach

Pythagoras

Riccioli

Rook Mountains

Sea of Clouds

Sea of Cold

Sea of Crises

Sea of Fertility

Sea of Moisture

Sea of Nectar

Sea of Rains

Sea of Serenity

Sea of Tranquillity

Straight Wall

Theophilus

Tsiolkovsky

Tycho

Walther

Colophon

Funder Acknowledgment

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