tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post9078336458389633124..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: Jean (Hans) Arp: Sekundenzeiger (Second hand)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-56751949173548273582011-10-23T08:45:22.923-07:002011-10-23T08:45:22.923-07:00Thank you, Barry. What you sent added a lot to my...Thank you, Barry. What you sent added a lot to my Sunday morning. CurtisACravanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00315707533118640284noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-31091973678843451372011-10-23T07:27:22.584-07:002011-10-23T07:27:22.584-07:00Barry,
That's about my favourite Arp poem, to...Barry,<br /><br />That's about my favourite Arp poem, too.<br /><br />But so much of the brilliance of these pieces resides in the sound and sense plays in the original language, I thought to go to something that's a pure "form-creation," as he called it at the time.<br /><br />There was moreover the special benefit of the having the generous services of that appropriately mechanical linguist Mr. G.O. Ogle.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-10448259837418693752011-10-23T05:45:34.008-07:002011-10-23T05:45:34.008-07:00Curtis, Tom -
He's a terrific poet too:
I am...Curtis, Tom -<br /><br />He's a terrific poet too:<br /><br />I am a horse<br /><br /><br />I travel in a train<br />that is overcrowded<br />in my compartment<br />each seat is taken by a woman<br />with a man sitting on her lap<br />the air is unbearably tropical<br />all the travellers have an enormous appetite<br />they eat without ceasing<br />suddenly the men<br />begin to whimper<br />and long for the maternal breast<br />they unbutton the women's blouses<br />and suck the fresh milk to their hearts' content<br />I alone do not suck<br />nor am I suckled<br />nobody sits on my lap<br />because I am a horse<br />immense and upright I sit<br />with my hind-legs up on the train seat<br />and comfortably lean<br />on my fore-legs<br />I whinny a raucous neigh neigh neigh<br />on my breast glitter<br />the sex buttons of sex appeal<br />in neat little rows<br />like the glittering buttons on uniforms<br />oh summertime<br />oh wide wide world<br /><br />--Hans Arp<br /><br />tr, Harriett Watts<br />in *Three Painter-Poets: Arp, Schwitters, Klee*<br />[Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1974]Barry Taylorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02121653352771218338noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-50305505769350327362011-10-21T08:52:01.263-07:002011-10-21T08:52:01.263-07:00Thanks, Curtis.
Arp, sheer genius, plus great se...Thanks, Curtis. <br /><br />Arp, sheer genius, plus great sense of humour. The ultimate bonus.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-47382107381010592872011-10-21T08:25:51.752-07:002011-10-21T08:25:51.752-07:00I could tell that this was going to be great from ...I could tell that this was going to be great from the second I saw Shirt Front and Fork. It's just SO great. CurtisACravanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00315707533118640284noreply@blogger.com