Saturday, 3 May 2008

hair



hair cannot possibly bear fruit
said he
red fruit even less
hair cannot possibly fly
said he
when the clouds are moist and heavy
even less

I suddenly wished the rain
violently
upon his lips
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  1. swiss3 May 2008 at 04:33

    which has to remind me of this -

    Laisse-moi respirer longtemps, longtemps, l'odeur de tes cheveux , y plonger tout mon visage, comme un homme altéré dans l'eau d'une source, et les agiter avec ma main comme un mouchoir odorant, pour secouer des souvenirs dans l'air.

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  2. Roxana4 May 2008 at 01:34

    oui, monsieur, tout à fait d'accord!

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  3. Szerelem5 May 2008 at 11:45

    first hands...now hair :)

    These are lovely as is the very pretty woman :)

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  4. Roxana6 May 2008 at 00:55

    :-)
    do you think she could pass for an Indian? just the feeling, I know the face is too hazy. she was told she had got the beauty of indian women, at least the way we perceive it :-)

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  5. Szerelem6 May 2008 at 12:54

    Oh she could pass for an Indian!
    Can I ask where she is from?

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  6. Roxana6 May 2008 at 13:46

    she's Romanian, like me :-)
    somebody told her she resembles Maitreyi Devi, a very famous figure here because she is the central character in a love novel written by the Romanian historian of religion Mircea Eliade. It is actually based on a true story, from the time of his studies in India with his professor, the philosopher Surendranath Dasgupta, Maitreyi's father. But she herself wrote a book later, denying his version of the story.
    http://www.amazon.com/Does-Not-Die-Romance/dp/0226143651

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  7. Roxana6 May 2008 at 13:55

    sorry, here:

    her book

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  8. swiss7 May 2008 at 10:52

    and another coincidence! mircea eliade along with am cioran, appears in the reading i'm doing on kenneth white at the moment

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  9. Roxana7 May 2008 at 11:54

    :-)
    I've never read kenneth white and it is very hard to find his poetry on the net. but I found his lectures on geopoetics, it is so fascinating. I have to read more. I see he's quite known in france, no wonder, if they've already had gilbert durand and bachelard. and I see he sees in segalen, who is one of my dearest poets, a geopoetician avant la lettre. I've been meaning to post something from segalen for quite a long time now, but it is impossible to find any english translation! [maybe now that I have you... :-), I don't just think, I am convinced you could do a wonderful job. one needs a poet to translate poetry, of this I'm sure]

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  10. swiss8 May 2008 at 10:22

    sounds interesting. am off on holiday for a week or two but i'll give segalen a try when i get back if you've some poems in mind....

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  11. swiss8 May 2008 at 11:04

    re white - open world contains all his poetry and is available from amazon. as is tony macmanus' the radical field which is a collection of essays on him. you've proably more accessto his work in french than i have!

    also, liking the comment thing you have at the bottom of the page. how does that work? i'd like something like this

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  12. Roxana9 May 2008 at 00:37

    oh this would make me really happy, segalen is one of my favourite poets, and so underrated I believe...
    re comment thing, well I don't remember, I just googled how to do it and then followed the instructions but I completely forgot, I'll search again for you if you need it.
    have a nice holiday then! where do you go, on another celestial beach? :-)

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