Klarinet Archive - Posting 000799.txt from 2002/05

From: Tony@-----.uk (Tony Pay)
Subj: [kl] Another translation of Rimbaud
Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 13:27:58 -0400

Found this on the internet. Unfortunately I erased the context, but
<kidding> the un-named translator was a synaesthete </kidding>. So this
version is *certainly* authentic:-)

LE SONNET DE VOYELLES

A Black, E white, I Red, U Green, O, Blue;
some day I'll crack your nascent origins.

A Hairy corset of clacking black flies
Bombarding agony pits of stench-ridden darkness;

E Frankness in steamers and pavilions, lances
Of lofty glaciers, white kings, shivering umbels;

I Purple red spittle, laughter of sweet lips
Turning to rage or into penitent raptures;

U Cycles, viridian seas divinely shuddering,
Peace in creature-sown pasture, and peace
In furrows, alchemy sows in intellectual foreheads;

O The great last Trump full of strange stridencies,
Silences crosed by Lucifer's trail of angels,
O------, in Omega, the violet beam of his gaze!

Tony
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