COSMOGONIE INTIME An Intimate Cosmogony
français POEMS Yves Peyré TRANSLATION Elizabeth R. Jackson DRAWINGS Ray Rice BOOKWORK Felicia Rice CRITICAL COMMENTARY Rosemary Lloyd French poet Yves Peyré has composed five poems, a sequence that carries the poet himself and his generation through time and space, touching base regularly to evoke a familiar name, a place, a far-gone era. These poems […]
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English POÈMES Yves Peyré LA TRADUCTION Elizabeth R. Jackson DESSINS Ray Rice EBAUCHE ET COMPOSITION Felicia Rice COMMENTAIRE CRITIQUE Rosemary Lloyd DESCRIPTION Yves Peyré a écrit cinq poèmes. La suite qu’ils composent transporte le poète et ses contemporains dans divers temps et divers espaces. Par moments il évoque des noms familiers: un individu, un lieu, […]
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One can imagine a line which runs from Santa Cruz to Ashland by way of Mendocino not forgetting a leap though Paris. Friendship always perturbs geography. Imaginary realms: the sole truth in books.
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Intimate Cosmogony: Law of Passage 3
If everything fades, everything blazes, uncertainty is my only posture, I glean what comes clear from the heart and what is unspoken, I kindle equally images and worlds, illusion and thundering truth.
Cosmogenie Intime Law of Passage 2
I go towards things becoming, an octopus has been pulled from the sea and the fish persist intact within, the ammonite’s spiral denotes certainty of time, its trembling and ts peace…
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For the cadence, an oarsmen’s sky, I see waves of wind, a crystalline plain floats in the blue, it passes out of sight, the air becomes word and windmills turn endlessly, pleasure-tuned to my memory.