Surrealist Texts by Surrealist Women
In celebration of Benjamin Péret
the lettuce devours its leaves
the night its stars
the insect becomes hopeful
the unfortunate cow
dissolves unnoticed
while the soap eats grass
and grows fat
the avenues forget their names
and are referred to only
as Smith
mud puddles take the initiative
to spring at well-dressed men
and top hats aren´t safe from snowballs
even in the midst summer
(Paris 1966)
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Penelope Rosemont, Penelope Rosemont (ed), Surrealist Women, An International Anthology ,(University of Texas, Austin, 1998), pp. 320-321
[...] Desire is in reality the instant when the sky wants to lower itself so deeply down the ground that the bodies disintegrate into themselves and when the sound of dripping that is heard is the eyes falling into the surface of the sea that gets a hundred years of memory out of only one second − the sea in which we are drowning, and which gives us birth at the same moment.
Kajsa Bergh, translated from the Swedish by Bruno Jacobs
Penelope Rosemont (ed), Surrealist Women, An International Anthology (University of Texas, Austin, 1998), p. 456
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Q.E.D.
Prolonged horizontal pleasures;
vertical principles
aligned like forest trees;
a hot tangent of poetry
tending toward madness.
What is radius?
A mere infinity:
impulses without end
pouring off the circumference,
Just as my days
Overflow the margins
and come full circle.
Here I Am:
point center.
Mary Low, Penelope Rosemont (ed), Surrealist Women, An International Anthology (University of Texas, Austin, 1998), pp.209-210
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