[New-Poetry] paris poem

[Anny Ballardini]

With a beautiful *Sky over Paris* (c.1933) all about e.e.cummings and his
stay in Paris:
http://www.gvsu.edu/english/cummings/Paris.htm

and one colorful poem:

Paris;this April sunset completely utters
utters serenely silently a cathedral

before whose upward lean magnificent face
the streets turn young with rain,

spiral acres of bloated rose
coiled within cobalt miles of sky
yield to and heed
the mauve
               of twilight(who slenderly descends,
daintily carrying in her eyes the dangerous first stars)
people move love hurry in a gently

arriving gloom and
see!(the new moon
fills abruptly with sudden silver
these torn pockets of lame and begging colour)while
there and here the lithe indolent prostitute
Night,argues

with certain houses
(1923; CP 183)



On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 6:27 PM, David Graham <grahamd at ripon.edu> wrote:

>  *Paris, October 1936
> *
> >From all of this I am the only one who leaves.
> >From this bench I go away, from my pants,
> from my great situation, from my actions,
> from my number split side to side,
> from all of this I am the only one who leaves.
>
> >From the Champs Elysées or as the strange
> alley of the Moon makes a turn,
> my death goes away, my cradle leaves,
> and, surrounded by people, alone, cut loose,
> my human resemblance turns around
> and dispatches its shadows one by one.
>
> And I move away from everything, since everything
> remains to create my alibi:
> my shoe, its eyelet, as well as its mud
> and even the bend in the elbow
> of my own buttoned shirt.
>
>
> --Cesar Vallejo.  translated by Clayton Eshleman
>
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