Editing Invisible Cities (section)

==Description==
The book is framed as a conversation between the [[Mongol Empire|Mongol emperor]] [[Kublai Khan]], and [[Marco Polo]]. The majority of the book consists of brief [[prose poetry|prose poems]] describing 55 fictitious cities that are narrated by Polo, many of which can be read as commentary on [[culture]], [[language]], [[time]], [[memory]], [[death]], or [[Human condition|human experience]] generally.

Short dialogues between Kublai and Polo are interspersed every five to ten cities discussing the same topics. These interludes between the two characters are no less poetically constructed than the cities, and form a [[framing device]] that plays with the natural complexity of language and stories. In the middle of the book, Kublai asks about a city Polo never mentioned, his hometown of [[Venice]]. Polo replied, "Every time I describe a city I am saying something about Venice."