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"Goll was in the avant-garde of various literary scenes. A central figure in the German world of Dada and Expressionism in Berlin; a founder alongside Eulard and Apollinaire of the French Surrealist movement in Paris; friend and collaborator with Picasso, Leger, Dali, Braque, Chagall, Tanguy and James Joyce; playwright and precursor to Ionesco's "Theatre of the Absurd," and Artaud's "Theatre of Cruelty"; the celebrated editor of Hemispheres magazine in the U.S. and friends of William Carlos Williams, James Laughlin of New Directions, and Kenneth and Miriam Patchen, among others."
Contents
CONTENTS
Preface (Thomas Rain Crowe)...................
"LOOKING FOR DRAGONSMOKE
Contents
I
Dragonsmoke"Robert Bly has become, over his several lifetimes of ink and words, a force of geological genius, transforming the landscape of poetry and culture in ways that set him beside the Old Masters and anonymous teachers whose praises his lines so often sing. This book carries its own lantern of bioluminescence, an alchemical music and knowledge, and Bly's ferocious thirst, needed now more than ever."
- Jane Hirshfield
Six Disciplines That Intensify Poetry
Looking for Dragonsmoke
II
The Imperfect Is Our Paradise
The Work of Jane Hirshfield
Wallace Stevens and Dr. Jekyll
My Doubts About Whitman
Upward into the Depths
Rilke and the Holy
James Wright's Clarity and Extravagance
A Few Notes on Antonio Machado
William Stafford and the Golden Thread
Some Rumors About Kabir
The Surprises in Ghalib
III
Opinions and Judgments
A Wrong Turning in American Poetry
When Literary Life Was Still Piled Up in a Few Places
The Eight Stages of Translation
IV
Thoreau and Wildness
Thoreau and Wildness
Introduction vi
Butterfly and Flowers
I.
II.
III.
IV.
Blossoms fade in withered red and apricots are tiny 1
I recall our first meeting by the peacock screen 3
Petals flutter down without wind 5
The face of spring glows after rain 7
V. Lights flooded Hangzhou on the Fifteenth Night 9
The Water Song
Roll up brocade curtains at sunset 11
When did the bright moon come into being 13
Murmurs ripple between boy and girl 15
Southern Countryside
Frost is on the ground and the river has shrunk 17
My gaze darkens the cup that sends off spring 19
I looked back at the jumbled ridges 21
A jade goblet captures late afternoon landscape 23
Calming the Wind and Waves
Ignore the sounds piercing trees and beating leaves 25
I envy a certain man refined as carved jade 27
The Court Fills With Fragrance
After thirty-three years 29
Fame fits in a snail's horn 31
"Return to where I belong" 33
Sand of the Washing Stream
Crimson warmth of sunset lured fish to the surface 35
The stream bathes orchid sprouts down the mountain 37
They rouged in a whirl to go governor watching 39
Ten thousand acres of wintry waves erased my memory 41
Soft grass and flat sedge freshen after rain 43
Date blossoms rain onto my clothes 45
The wind flies fast clouds low over the water 47
From the River City
Ten years one alive one dead we share no light 49
Afraid of being seen beneath my darkened eyebrows 51
Inflicted with endless pining I drift to the edge of the sky 53
I saw it all and woke from the drunken dream 55
The rain clears by the Phoenix Mountain 57
VI. An old man lets loose some youthful wildness 59
The Song of the Cave Celestial
Skin of ice and bones of jade 61
Eight Toned Ganzhou
Passionate wind sweeps tides in for a thousand miles 63
Divination
A broken moon catches on a leafless phoenix tree 65
Touching Up Crimson Lips
Red apricot blossoms flaunt sweet scent 67
Lord Ruan's Return
First cicadas drone in leafy locusts and tall willows 69
A Young Man's Journey
Last year I saw you off 71
The Joy of Returning to Court
I dreamed I was in a little boat floating on Thunder Lake 73
To the Bridegroom
A fledging swallow flies into the mansion 75
Trimmed Magnolia
A pair of dragons rise face to face 77
The Celestial by the River
We've rekindled the hearth three times since parting 79
Two handmaidens rode off on fine horses 81
Sobered and got drunk again at East Hill 83
The River Turns Red
Rivers Yangtze and Han dash from the west 85
Southern Song
Courtesans' eyebrows mirror shades of distant mountains 87
Carrying wine dashed through mountain rain 89
Nian Nu's Charm
The vast river rushes eastward 91
Spring in Qin Garden
An oil lamp's blue flame haunts a lone lodge 93
Celestials on the Bridge of Magpies
The prince on Gou Mountain 95
A Dream Song
Pass the word to East Hill 97
Water Dragon Chant
They are flowers yet unlike any 99
Gazing Southward of the Yangtze
Spring is not yet over 101
West River Moon
I pass by Pingshan Hall for the third time 103
Do not sigh over the desolate prairie 105
A small rain patters on the balcony 107
An open field shimmers with shallow waves 109
Journey Through Incense
A crystal night untouched by dust 111
Arm in arm we roamed the riverside village 113
I ride a leaf of a boat 115
The Sun Pass
Dusk clouds vanish as a crystal chill blooms 117
Eternal Happiness
Moonlight frosts the night 119
Zhao Jun's Regret
Someone channeled Huan Yi in three flute rounds 121
Partridge Sky
The forest ends the mountain gleams bamboos hide walls 123
The Fisherman 125
Chinese Names 127
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"Surrealist Manifesto (1924)" ........................
"The Panama Canal 1914"............................
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From Jean Sans Terre (1936-1939)—American Edition: 1958 (Misc. translators)
"Jean Sans Terre Defined by Yvan Goll".......................................................
"Identity of Jean Sans Terre" (Galway Kinnell)...............................................
"Jean Sans Terre Weds the Moon" (Yvan Goll)................................................
"Jean Sans Terre on the Bridge" (Kenneth Rexroth)..........................................
"John With No Moon" (W.S.Merwin)..........................................................
"Jean Sans Terre the Assassin" (Kenneth Patchen)............................................
"Jean Sans Terre Purchases Manhattan" (Clark Mills)........................................
"Jean Sans Terre Discovers the West Pole" (William Carlos Williams)....................
"Jean Sans Terre at the Final Port" (William Carlos Williams)..............................
From Fruit From Saturn—Hemispheres Press, 1946
"Atom Elegy" ................................................
From The Myth of the Pierced Rock -Le Mythe de la Roche Percee, 1947--(translations by Frank Jones, 1975)
Preface........................ ..............................
"II, III, XIV, XV" ........................................
From Lackawanna Elegy (1947)—Sumac Press Edition, 1970 (translations by Galway Kinnell)
"Lackawanna Elegy".........................................
"Show Boat"..................................................
"Bridges"......................................................
"Lackawanna Mannahatta'..................................
"Wings of Water"............................................
"Fish of Wandering"........................................
"Brooklyn Waterfront".....................................
"Balconies Suspended Over Lackawanna"..............
"Lackawanna Elegy".........................................
From 10,000 Dawns (Dix Milles Aubes, 1951) - (translations by Thomas Rain Crowe), White Pine Press, 2005
--Crowe Introduction......................................
"Your hair sets fire".......................................
"Of all the trees in the forest"............................
"I want to be that birch tree..............................
"Your eyes are everywhere"..............................
"I have grown old"........................................
"In 100 years".............................................
"I wear you like a tattoo"................................
"This is the season of jealousy".........................
"O I want to complain"....................................
"We will always be alone"...............................
"You are elusive"..........................................
"10,000 Dawns"..........................................
From Dreamweed (Traumkraut) - Limes Verlag, 1951- Black Lawrence Press, 2012 (translations by Nan Watkins)
"Alasam" ...................................................
"This Holy Body" ........................................
"Rosedom" .................................................
"Job III" ....................................................
"South" .....................................................
"In Fields of Camphor" ...................................
"The Sun Cantata" .........................................
"To Claire-Liliane"..........................................
"To Claire"...................................................
"The Fear Dancer" .........................................
"The Rain Palace" ..........................................
From Yvan Goll: Poems--Kayak Books, Inc, 1968 (Misc. translators)
"Ode to Autumn" (Robert Bly)...........................................
"The Inner Trees" (Robert Bly)...........................................
"The Hut of Cinders" (George Hitchcock)..............................
"I Loved You in Every Blackbird" (George Hitchcock)..............
"Do Not Call Death" (Paul Zweig).......................................
"Why Should Summer Come Back" (Paul Zweig)....................
"Blood Rose" (Paul Zweig)...............................................
"The Night Is Our Dress" (Paul Zweig).................................
"Elegy for Poor Me" (George Hitchcock)...............................
About the Editor............................................................88
