poems for the millenium one
FORERUNNERS
Prologue to Forerunners
William Blake
"Obey thou the Words of the Inspired Man"
Friedrich Holderlin
In the Days of Socrates
Elias Lonnrot
from The Kaleva/a
Walt Whitman
This Compost
Charles Baudelaire
Fuses I & II
Emily Dickinson
Fascicle 34 Poem 9
Bald Mountain Zaum-Poems
Gerard Manley Hopkins
That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire and of the Comfort
of the Resurrection
Isidore Ducasse, Comte de Lautreamont
from Maldoror
Arthur Rimbaud
from A Season in Hell
After Bitahatini
from The Night Chant
Stephane Mallarme
from Le Livre
A FIRST GALLERY
Stephane Mallarme
A Throw of the Dice Never Will Abolish Chance
C. P. Cavafy
Waiting for the Barbarians
Days of 1908
And I Lounged and Lay on their Beds
Adolf Wolfli
Nostalgic Song for My Beloved
from From the Cradle to the Graave, or, through
working and sweating, suffering and hardship, even
through prayyer into damnation
Match Factory at Chaami 1911
Ruben Darlo
Far Away and Long Ago
To Roosevelt
Paul Valery
Crusoe
Alfred Jarry
The Passion of Jesus Considered as an Uphill Race
Gertrude Stein
from Tender Buttons
A Valentine to Sherwood Anderson
from Lifting Belly
Rainer Maria Rilke
Death
Tombs of the Hetaerae
The First Duino Elegy
Max Jacob
1914
from The Cock and the Pearl
Andrey Bely
from The Dramatic Symphony
Guillaume Apollinaire
Horse Calligram
Zone
A Phantom of Clouds
from Poems for Lou
The Little Car
from Victoire
Pablo Picasso
A Bottle of Suze
Franz Kafka
Before the Law
Mina Loy
from Love Songs to ]oannes
Three Moments in Paris
Dino Campana
Genoa
Fernando Pessoa
"The startling reality of things"
from Maritime Ode
from Oblique Rain
Ezra Pound
Papyrus
The Return
Canto One
Hagiwara Sakutaro
Chair
Spring Night
Lover of Love
So Terrifyingly Melancholy
Blaise Cendrars
The Great Fetishes
from The Prose of the Trans-Siberian
and of Little Jeanne of France
Marcel Duchamp
The 1914 Box
Giuseppe Ungaretti
THREE POEMS
Mattina/ Morning
Soldiers
Babel
The Rivers
Pierre Reverdy
Secret
Flower Market
Inn
Squares
Vicente Huidobro
Ars Poetica
CowBoy Express