Re Yves Tanguy

[Dale Houstman]

"cythera" <cyt...@my-deja.com> wrote in message
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> > Marcus Williamson <mar...@myrealbox.com> wrote in message
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> > > Yves Tanguy
> > >
> > > The worlds are breaking in my head
> > > Blown by the brainless wind
> > > That comes from afar
> > > Swollen with dusk and dust
> > > And hysterical rain
> > >
> > >
> > > The fading cries of the light
> > > Awaken the endless desert
> > > Engrossed in its tropical slumber
> > > Enclosed by the dead grey oceans
> > > Enclasped by the arms of the night
> > >
> > >
> > > The worlds are breaking in my head
> > > Their fragments are crumbs of despair
> > > The food of the solitary damned
> > > Who await the gross tumult of turbulent
> > > Days bringing change without end
> > >
> > >
> > > The worlds are breaking in my head
> > > The fuming future sleeps no more
> > > For their seeds are beginning to grow
> > > To creep and to cry midst the
> > > Rocks of the deserts to come
> > >
> > >
> > > Planetary seed
> > > Sown by the grotesque wind
> > > Whose head is so swollen with rumours
> > > Whose hands are so urgent with tumours
> >
> > Whose feet are so deep in the sand
> >
> >>
> >>
> > by David Gascoyne
>
> >> This is really pretty bad.
>
> > I don't like it either, although Gascoyne does have a "reputation" and
> > was part of the first English surrealist group. I've read a fair share
of
> > his work by now and rarely understand why he is given so much space,
> > unless it is because he is also a fairly well-known translator of French
> > texts.
>
> His adjectives -- yuck! Fading, endless, dead, solitary, gross,
grotesque,
> swollen, urgent. How dull can you get.
>
> > It is difficult to say all that of course, because it seems that the
> > notion poetry is supposed to be beyond criticism keeps popping up here
> > and there, mixed with the idea that "poetry shall be made by all"
although
> > that "shall" is all-important, banking as it does on a reconfigured
world
> > that is - regrettably enough - always just a little too far in the
future.
> > But - in this world - much of what attempts to pass itself off as poetry
> > is just puttering.
>
> Someone else whose poetry is over-rated is Mina Loy.
>
I suppose I'd have to read her again to see, but I recall rather enjoying
her. Maybe I confused her poetry with Myrna Loy's acting (and face). But as
far as being over-rated is concerned, I was never much concerned with the
"poll rating" anyway, and poetry (except Jim Morrison and Rod McKuen) is -
in the main - ignored, so it isn't much of a hierarchy. I will say that I
prefer Rimbaud to most of what I've read, and - honestly - as I grow older,
I find myself disliking poetry more and more, except (as in the visual arts)
for the work of "naive" artists. For too many the stink of academia and
soured-milk philosophy hangs in their air like a fly strip, and there is
(especially in modern America) all too much emphasis on "earnest meaning"
and the subjective, which I find both dull and preposterous. But I'm an old
bastard, what do I know?

dmh

[Anonymous]

Funny, this is the best poem I ever read from alt.surrealism. Its either you
feel it or you don't.

cythera wrote:

> > dmh

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