The Yale Anthology of Twentieth-Century French Poetry

part 3. 1931–1945: prewar and war poetry Parle... Cet espace il te faut l’abandonner à sa propre fructification. Tu n’y entres p ...

Pierre-Albert Jourdan 1924–1981 paris, france J ourdan spent his entire professional career as chief of the Paris public transpo ...

part 3. 1931–1945: prewar and war poetry qu’elle soit; ce que de toujours l’a≈rme ce dialogue de terre et de ciel à l’écart des ...

GHERASIM LUCA let it be; a≈rmed always by this dialogue of earth and sky to the side of paths imposed let this madness be, deaf ...

part 3. 1931–1945: prewar and war poetry il a neuf fourchettes symétriques à ses neuf paires de jambes dix paires de jambes abso ...

GHERASIM LUCA it has nine forks symmetrical in its nine pairs of legs ten pairs of legs absorbed by its legs in other words elev ...

part 3. 1931–1945: prewar and war poetry je te tremblante tu me séduis tu m’absorbes je te dispute je te risque je te grimpe tu ...

GHERASIM LUCA I trembling you you seduce me you absorb me I dispute you I risk you I climb you you brush by me I swim you But yo ...

part 3. 1931–1945: prewar and war poetry je te rétine dans mon sou∆e tu t’iris je t’écris tu me penses Si l’attendrissant souven ...

DORA MAAR I retina you in my breath you iris you I write you you think me —mary ann caws Dora Maar (Henriette Theodora Markovitc ...

part 3. 1931–1945: prewar and war poetry détresse dans la coupe le coup de langue de son regard éveille la ratatouille tragique ...

DORA MAAR bouquet of stars of the sea shrieking its distress in the cup the verbal blast of its gaze awakens the tragic ratatoui ...

part 3. 1931–1945: prewar and war poetry Je veux dormir avec toi Je veux dormir avec toi coude à coude Cheveux entremêlés Sexes ...

Joyce Mansour 1928–1986 bowden, england M ansour was one of the few prominent female poets associated with the Surrealist moveme ...

part 3. 1931–1945: prewar and war poetry Penché sur les flots Je veux creuser des routes dans les lunaires collines De ton corps ...

JOYCE MANSOUR Attending to the Flood I want to forge new routes in your body’s Moon hills Light fires in the hollows of your eye ...

part 3. 1931–1945: prewar and war poetry Envolée de la mer en déroute Vient rafraîchir nos visages défaits Et nos corps qui se c ...

MERET OPPENHEIM Cast up by the receding sea Comes to cool our tired faces And our bodies hiding In the tepid dark of our sleepin ...

part 3. 1931–1945: prewar and war poetry paranoïde (elle rappelle des figures de Salvador Dali), mais qui prend des propor- tion ...

VALENTINE PENROSE (like the figure of Salvador Dalí), but which takes on gigantic proportions as soon as it gets through the doo ...