The Yale Anthology of Twentieth-Century French Poetry

part 2. 1916–1930: dada and the heroic period of surrealism Tranches de savoir (extraits) Si votre enfant a une trompe sur le ne ...

HENRI MICHAUX Slices of Knowledge If your child has a trunk on its nose, be not afraid of elephants. *** There he who is bored g ...

part 2. 1916–1930: dada and the heroic period of surrealism Ne pas laisser condamner à défaire les chignons de bronze. *** Nous ...

BENJAMIN PÉRET Do not allow anyone to be condemned to undo bronze chignons. *** We bombed them with sa√ron shells. Given the sta ...

part 2. 1916–1930: dada and the heroic period of surrealism Allo Mon avion en flammes mon château inondé de vin du Rhin mon ghet ...

BENJAMIN PÉRET review La Révolution surréaliste with Pierre Navaille. So opposed was he to the merging of politics and poetry th ...

part 2. 1916–1930: dada and the heroic period of surrealism Clin d’œil Des vols de perroquets traversent ma tête quand je te voi ...

BENJAMIN PÉRET Wink Parakeets fly through my head when I see you in profile and the greasy sky streaks with blue flashes tracing ...

part 2. 1916–1930: dada and the heroic period of surrealism qu’elle se croit le comptoir d’un café où les cercles laissés par le ...

FRANCIS PONGE it thinks itself a cafe counter where the circles left by the glasses trace a chain I would only say to you I love ...

part 2. 1916–1930: dada and the heroic period of surrealism Les Plaisirs de la porte Les rois ne touchent pas aux portes. Ils ne ...

FRANCIS PONGE objeu merges object and game. Taking ‘‘the side of things,’’ he enlarges both their scope and their substance. In ...

part 2. 1916–1930: dada and the heroic period of surrealism Mais le poète au cours de sa promenade professionnelle, en prend de ...

FRANCIS PONGE But the poet on his professional walk mulls this over in his mind: ‘‘Clearly,’’ he says to himself, ‘‘the patient ...

part 2. 1916–1930: dada and the heroic period of surrealism elle, il n’est que de prose: une pile sèche; une batterie déchargée; ...

FRANCIS PONGE to black—one may come to the conclusion that any book it may contain will consist entirely of prose: a dry cell; a ...

part 2. 1916–1930: dada and the heroic period of surrealism Barbara Rappelle-toi Barbara Il pleuvait sans cesse sur Brest ce jou ...

Jacques Prévert 1900–1977 neuilly-sur-seine, france P révert was immortalized with his first collection of poems, Paroles, which ...

part 2. 1916–1930: dada and the heroic period of surrealism Barbara Et tu as couru vers lui sous la pluie Ruisselante ravie épan ...

JACQUES PRÉVERT Barbara And you ran towards him in the rain Steaming wet full of joy radiant And you threw yourself into his arm ...