From: zatavu-AT-excite.com
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 15:03:49 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Re: PLC: Literary Saints


>  > Well, I will admit that wasn't a good choice. I have a better one,
French
>  > surrealism, a poem by Andre Breton:
>  > 
>  > FEELINGS ARE FREE
>  > 
>  > Trace smell of sulphur
>  > Marsh of public health-measures
>  > Red of criminal lips
>  > March two-time pickle-brine
>  > Monkeys' caprice
>  > Day-colored clock
>  > 
>  > I look forward to your explaining the moral we can learn from that.
>  
>  [I wish you wouldn't say so so smugly. I do not know this piece, and I
>  am not going to look it up. I will deal in this only in poems which are
>  not translated, and I assume this is a translation. Meet those
>  conditions and I will be happy to have a shot. Are you of the impression
>  that surrealism has no moral content?]

WHat's wrong the the poem above, even in translation (It is from The
Magnetic Fields, by the way)? Take it as it is. Pretend it is not
translated. Or, if you don't feel up to it, I could give you another one:

LOVE TOWN by Anne Carson

She ran in.
Wet corn.
Yellow braid.
Down her back.

SHort, but beautiful. Ethical? Only if the beautiful is ethical. Would you
perhaps allow me to submit a poem of my own, perhaps? I won't do so now, but
let you say if I should. Or perhaps this poem will be enough.

Troy Camplin





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