part of The Beautiful Letter
download file The Surrealist Love Poems translated by Mary Ann Caws rearranged my entire poetic vocabulary back in 2002. Completely altered my thinking. "My love whose hair is woodfire/Her thoughts heat lightning / Her waist an hourglass / My love an otter in the tiger's jaws / Her mouth a rosette bouquet of stars of the highest magnitude / Her teeth footprints of white mice on white earth." - Andre Breton. When I think of that, it infects me. Dan and I conversed about it often and it gave him the inspiration you can certainly witness here. |