The Voice of Robert Desnos

by Desnos, Robert

• ISBN13: 9781931357944
• ISBN10: 1931357943
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-04-13
• Publisher: Sheep Meadow Pr

Summary

In the 60 years since his death, the great French surrealist poet Robert Desnos has become one of the most accomplished lyricists of the 20th century. His name has become synonymous with artistic, personal, and political freedom. He was the last of the Romantics, and the most passionate.

Author Biography

WILLIAM KULIK was born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1937. Hunter, gardener, fisherman and cartoonist, he lives in Philadelphia with his wife, Catharine, and their two children, Amy and Alexander. He teaches English at the Community College of Philadelphia.

Table of Contents

I went down a strange street	p. 2
My tomb my pretty tomb	p. 3
If you sing La Marseillaise	p. 4
Chicago	p. 5
Arbitrary fate	p. 6
Door to the second infinity	p. 7
Homicidal air	p. 8
Announcement	p. 9
What do you want me to say?	p. 10
But I was not understood	p. 11
Rope	p. 12
Your lovers and mistresses	p. 13
Encounters	p. 14
The great days of the poet	p. 15
Sorrows of love	p. 16
I've dreamed of you so much	p. 17
Sleep spaces	p. 18
If you only knew	p. 20
No, love is not dead	p. 22
The way a hand at the moment of death	p. 24
Under cover of night	p. 25
The voice of Robert Desnos	p. 26
Idee Fixe	p. 28
Three stars	p. 29
Sky song	p. 30
Of the flower of love and the wandering horses	p. 31
With heart of oak	p. 34
Ancient clamor	p. 36
The suicide of night	p. 38
Nightfall	p. 39
Ebony life	p. 40
The sun's despair	p. 41
Identity of images	p. 43
At daybreak	p. 44
Words from the rocks	p. 45
Long long ago	p. 47
Never anyone but you	p. 48
Across the bridge	p. 49
Startled	p. 50
From the marble rose to the iron rose	p. 51
Tour of the tomb	p. 54
Mermaid	p. 55
The river with water lilies	p. 57
Song of the day and the following night	p. 59
O youth	p. 61
A shooting star	p. 62
Fairy tale	p. 63
Lovely as you are	p. 64
We'll laugh about it...	p. 68
Low tide	p. 69
On the road	p. 70
At dawn	p. 71
The land of eternal return	p. 72
Awakenings	p. 73
Intersection	p. 74
A tale	p. 75
Dreams	p. 76
The pointed square	p. 77
Through a point situated on a plane	p. 78
The newly-married poppy-lady	p. 79
The cat like nothing else on earth	p. 80
You take the first street on the right	p. 81
Lying down	p. 82
Men	p. 83
Nights	p. 84
Don Juan's city	p. 85
Mid-way	p. 88
The secret	p. 90
Devil feast	p. 91
In my glass	p. 93
The ox and the rose	p. 94
Comme	p. 95
The bottle in the river	p. 97
Comrades	p. 99
To the headless	p. 101
My baby	p. 103
Swim	p. 104
The St-Merri quarter	p. 106
The satyr	p. 111
To the ends of the earth	p. 115
Men on earth	p. 116
About oneself	p. 118
Once there was a leaf	p. 119
May 3, 1936	p. 120
May 5, 1936	p. 121
May 6, 1936	p. 122
June 10, 1936	p. 123
Today I took a walk	p. 126
Song for the beautiful season	p. 127
Coming harvests	p. 128
Afterword to Etat de Veille	p. 130
Couplets on the glass of wine	p. 132
Couplets on the summer sidewalk	p. 133
Couplets on the butcher	p. 134
Couplets on Rue St-Martin	p. 135
Earth	p. 136
At five AM	p. 137
Tomorrow	p. 138
Dawn	p. 139
Ars Poetica	p. 140
Coming down hillsides in spring	p. 143
Window	p. 144
Hello from the valley	p. 145
Spring	p. 146
Time of the dungeons	p. 147
The watchman of the Pont-au-Change	p. 148
If like the winds on the face of the compass	p. 152
Soil of Compiegne	p. 153
Reflections on poetry	p. 156
Cascade	p. 158
The river	p. 159
The hill	p. 160
The road	p. 161
The cemetery	p. 162
The clearing	p. 163
The cave	p. 164
The memory	p. 165
The prophecy	p. 166
Fate	p. 167
Harvest	p. 168
Siesta	p. 169
The town	p. 170
The house	p. 171
The landscape	p. 172
Midsummer night	p. 173
The plague	p. 174
The nymph Alceste	p. 175
The voice	p. 176
Grape harvest	p. 177
The equinox	p. 178
The beach	p. 179
Asylum	p. 180
The awakening	p. 181
Epitaph	p. 182
Letter to Youki	p. 183
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