Reading and discussion of "Images that flicker across the retinas", "Who soiled these linens, who left them stained and torn", "I cannot say if this is love. But if pain grips me", "I saw a light in a lost country.", "If I reflect on the promise", "That overwhelming coldness" and "Ice Sonnet", with guest lecturer and translator Jeffrey Childs.

Intertextual relationship with Charles Baudelaire's "Correspondences" (from The Flowers of Evil) and John Ashbery's "As You Came From The Holy Land" (from Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror).

Main topics: fleetingness, decadence and the end of an era; the second order observer; the senses as a source of knowledge (a more essencial than rational sphere of reality); the creation of a deliberate uncertainty; unatainable lands and unreliable anchors (the desire to escape from self).