Poets

Louis Aragon (french) Henri Michaux (english) Leonard Cohen (english)

Robert Desnos (french) Vladimir Nabokov (english) Rainer Maria Rilke (english) Charles Simic (english)

Louis Aragon

ELSA AU MIRROIR ," C'e'tait au beau millieu de notre trage'die / Et pendant un long jour assise `a son mirroir"

SIMPLICITY ," What has been particularly lacking in my life up to now is simplicity. Little by little I am beginning to change."

A KITE IS A VICTIM ," A kite is a victim you're sure of. / You love it because it pulls / gentle enough to call you master,"

AS THE MIST LEAVES NO SCAR ," As the mist leaves no scar / On the dark green hill,"

FOR E.J.P. ," I once believed a single line / in a Chinese poem could change / forever how blossoms fell"

HITLER ," Now let him go to sleep with history, / the real skeleton stinking gasoline,"

MARITA

OWNING EVERYTHING

THE FLOWERS THAT I LEFT IN THE GROUND ," The flowers that I left in the ground, / that I did not gather for you,"

THE FLY ," In his black armour / the house-fly marched the field / of Freda's sleeping thighs,"

THE INVISIBLE TROUBLE ," Too fevered to insist: / ``My world is terror,''"

THE LISTS ," Strafed by the Milky Way / vaccinated by a snarl of clouds"

TRAVEL ," Loving you, flesh to flesh, I often thought / Of travelling penniless to some mud throne"

WHAT I'M DOING HERE , "I do not know if the world has lied / I have lied"

J'AI TANT REVE DE TOI "J'ai tant rêve' de toi que tu perds ta re^alite'."

Restoration "To think that any fool may tear / by chance the web of when and where."

The Poem "Not the sunset poem you make when you think aloud"

THE PANTHER ," His vision from the constantly passing bars, / has grown so weary that it cannot hold / anything else. "

HOTEL INSOMNIA ," I liked my little hole, / Its window facing a brick wall."

MATCHES ," Very dark when I step / On the street"

THE CONGRESS OF THE INSOMNIACS ," Mother of God, everyone is invited: / Stargazing Peruvian shepherds, / Old men on sidewalks of New York."