The golden dawn and the shivering evening find our schooner out at sea opposite this villa and its outlying buildings, which form a promontory as vast as Epirus and the Peloponnese, or Honshu or Arabia! Shrines that are lit up by processions returning; immense views of the fortifications along modern coasts; dunes illustrated with hot [...]
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Promontory by Arthur Rimbaud translated by Robert Yates
Posted in Les Illuminations, Poetry Cafe, Uncategorized on March 5, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Commonplace Nocturne by Arthur Rimbaud translated by Robert Yates
Posted in Les Illuminations on February 15, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
A breath of air opens up operadic gaps in the walls, – blurs the pivoting of the decrepit roofs – scatters the borders of the hearths, – casts a shadow across the casement windows. All along the vine, having supported myself by the foot on a gargoyle, – I climbed down into this carriage whose [...]
Fairy by Arthur Rimbaud translated by Robert Yates
Posted in Les Illuminations, Poetry Cafe on January 14, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
For Helen, ornamental saps conspired in the virgin shadows, and impassive brightnesses in the astral silence. The summer heat was bestowed to mute birds, and the requisite indolence to a priceless funeral barque sailing across bays of dead loves and sunken perfumes. – After the moment of the women woodcutters’ song accompanied by the rumbling [...]
