Surrealist Poetry in English
Penguin Modern Classics 1978
After an interesting introduction and explanation of surrealist poetry, the poets are given full rein.
One can read of the slack horse who “drinks the mezas,/he burns his thin knees over/braziers of grass” (Pierre Loving), “My wife.../With the waist of an hourglass/With the waist of an otter in the teeth of a tiger/...With the tongue of rubbed amber and glass”(AndrĂ© Breton), and “the sun tattooed on my back/begins to spin/. I crash out through the/window naked, widespread/upon a/Heliosaurus/I uproot an obelisk and plunge/it into the ink-pot of the/Black Sea/I write the word/SUN (Harry Crosby).
Also represented are Geoffrey Grigson, George Barker, David Gascoyne, Ruthven Todd, Charles Madge, Djuna Barnes, Henry Treece, Weldon Kees, Howard Sergeant, John Ashbery, and Lee Harwood. Dylan Thomas, George Melly, and Gavin Ewart are unlikely book-fellows.
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