Selected Verse Translations

by Gascoyne, David

• ISBN13: 9781870612333
• ISBN10: 1870612337
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-10-01
• Publisher: Enitharmon Press

Summary

A collection of poetry translated by David Gascoyne.

Author Biography

‘... Grant us extraordinary grace, O Spirit hidden in the dark in us and deep, And bring to light the dream out of our sleep.’ from ‘Kyrie’ (Selected Poems). David Gascoyne’s death in November 2001 was marked by the lead obituaries in all the British broadsheets as well as in Le Monde. As a poet and translator he had been internationally renowned since the 1930s. He was the first chronicler in English of the Surrealist movement, and an essayist and reviewer of dazzling range. His association with Enitharmon Press dates back to 1970 and in the past decade there have been eight publications which will be a lasting testament of his importance.

Table of Contents

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Preface
Introduction
Francis Picabia	p. 1
The Spectral Attitudes	p. 2
Postman Cheval	p. 4
Cards on the Dunes	p. 5
The Hermit-Crab Says
Force of Habit	p. 10
Mee Too Buggi	p. 12
The Raving Messengers of Frantic Poetry	p. 13
Georges Braque Intra Muros	p. 13
Narrow Altar	p. 14
The Darkening Garden	p. 15
The Poet's Last Words	p. 16
A Selection of Poems from Inscrire	p. 21
There was a Leaf	p. 29
Cable	p. 30
One for All	p. 31
The Sheep	p. 32
'At the End of a Long Voyage'	p. 33
What the Workman Says...	p. 34
Statement	p. 36
From Like an Image	p. 36
All the Rights	p. 39
Arp	p. 40
Necessity	p. 40
At Present	p. 41
Critique of Poetry	p. 42
A Woman	p. 42
Georges Braque	p. 42
Giorgio de Chirico	p. 43
Andre Masson	p. 43
Beauty and Resemblance	p. 44
Poetic Objectivity	p. 44
Void	p. 45
A Personality Always New	p. 45
Humphrey Jennings	p. 46
'Yesterday's Conquerors Shall Perish'	p. 46
Death of a Monster	p. 47
Hunted	p. 48
Sisters of Hope	p. 48
Max Ernst	p. 49
Balthus	p. 50
Asia	p. 51
Some Poems from Present Jour	p. 52
Poem 1933	p. 60
Two Poems from Au Temps du Poeme, 1944	p. 60
But Who's Afraid?	p. 62
Memory	p. 63
The Bronze Piano	p. 64
Song of Destiny	p. 65
The Hall of Life	p. 65
Ages of Life	p. 66
The Harvest	p. 66
Patmos	p. 67
'And Little Knowledge But Much Pleasure'	p. 69
Native Land	p. 69
Prince of the Air	p. 70
The Eagle	p. 70
Sybil	p. 71
Form and Spirit	p. 71
To the Beloved (Diotima)	p. 71
'Am I Not Far From Thee'	p. 72
'Peacefully the Neckar'	p. 72
Greece	p. 73
Autumn	p. 74
Winter	p. 74
Spring	p. 75
Summer	p. 76
Perspectives	p. 76
Tinian	p. 77
'O sure foundations of the Alps'	p. 78
Remembrance	p. 79
Fragment (And in that far off distance...)	p. 80
The Walk	p. 81
The Churchyard	p. 81
To Zimmer	p. 82
Sunday	p. 83
Poem (The chrysalis says...)	p. 84
Poem (A mail-coach overturns...)	p. 85
The Farewell	p. 86
The Key	p. 87
The True Miracles	p. 87
Glimmers in the Darkness	p. 87
Woman and Earth	p. 89
The Moths	p. 89
Brow	p. 90
Nada	p. 90
The Two Witnesses	p. 91
The Desires of the Flesh...	p. 91
Transpierce Me Lord...	p. 92
A Lone Woman Asleep	p. 92
From Nul N'en Etait Temoin	p. 93
Insula Monti Majoris	p. 93
The Resurrection of the Dead	p. 94
Gravida	p. 95
When Glory's Spring Returns	p. 95
From Sueur de Sang	p. 96
From Langue	p. 96
Freedom or Death	p. 98
In Helen's Land	p. 98
Evening Prayer	p. 99
From Genie	p. 99
To Himself	p. 99
Pieta	p. 100
'Here the Sky ...'	p. 100
London	p. 101
Weston-Super-Marc: Noon	p. 102
An Imitation of Leopardi's Imitation Canto (XXV)	p. 104
A Se Stesso/To Himself	p. 104
Summer Sadness	p. 105
Poem of the Forms of Grace	p. 106
The Pastor Essendean...	p. 107
H	p. 108
Unfinished Symphony	p. 110
Canticle of Spring	p. 113
The Bridge	p. 115
Psalm of the Morning Star	p. 116
That's No Good	p. 118
The Staircase with a Hundred Steps	p. 118
And So On	p. 120
Honest Folk	p. 120
Slapped Face	p. 121
At the End of the World	p. 121
A Bunch of Carrots	p. 122
Flanders Bridge	p. 122
Making Feet and Hands	p. 123
The Girls' Schools Are Too Small	p. 124
Half-fig, Half-grape	p. 125
Louis XVI Goes to the Guillotine	p. 126
Stick No Bills	p. 126
The Fall of the Franc	p. 127
The Stabilization of the Franc	p. 128
Little Song of the Disabled	p. 128
In Spring	p. 129
These Messes are Magnificent	p. 130
Deaf is the night...	p. 131
Death has listened...	p. 131
Reflux	p. 132
Heartbreak	p. 133
Perspective	p. 133
Portrait	p. 134
Fighting a Way Out	p. 135
A Considerable Way	p. 135
Sliding Trombone	p. 137
Opium	p. 137
From The Deserts of Love	p. 138
Andre Breton	p. 140
The Hermit-Crab Says	p. 142
Poem (I'm all alone...)	p. 148
Rain and the Tyrants	p. 148
Strangers' Faces	p. 149
Alter Ego	p. 150
While There's Life	p. 151
From Nocturne in Broad Day	p. 151
Five Thousand Metres Down	p. 152
Marseilles	p. 153
Homage to Life	p. 154
Tombeau de Holderlin	p. 155
The Sun	p. 157
'in your inside'	p. 158
The Approximate Man	p. 158
Appendix: sources of the poems	p. 163
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