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23 oct 2007

"In any of the three following poems fill in each of the blanks with any number of words you wish (including none) attempting to make a complete and satisfactory poem. Do not alter any of the existing words or punctuation or increase the number of lines."

(The Collected Books of Jack Spicer 356)

The second poem Spicer provides for this excercise is his own translation of Lorca's "Juan Ramón Jiménez," the first poem included of After Lorca, with some of the words left out :

In ............ endlessness
Snow, ............ salt
He lost his ............ .

The color white. He walks
Over a ............ carpet made
............ .

Without eyes or thumbs
He suffers ............
But the............ quiver

In the ............ endlessness
How............a wound
His ............ left.

Snow, ............ salt ............
In the ............ endlessness


Give it a try.
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8 comentarios:

  1. Whimsy7:41 a. m.

    Jonathan: Did you see the Garcia Lorca translations in APR? What did you think of them?

    J

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  2. Jonathan2:29 p. m.

    You mean the ones about a year ago? Summer of 06? Nothing bad, but I'm so sick of THIS side of Lorca being promoted.

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  3. Whimsy12:38 p. m.

    No, it just arrived yesterday at my house, so must be the current issue.

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  4. Jonathan1:19 p. m.

    Are they by Mark Statman? I should be getting my review copy soon and I'll let you know what I think. (All of you.)

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  5. Mark Statman2:34 p. m.

    Yes, the Lorca translations in the new APR are mine and Pablo's

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  6. brian (baj) salchert8:10 p. m.

    I do have the 1953 New Directions paperbook:
    The Selected Poems of
    Federico Garcia Lorca    ,
    but I've decided not to search it.
    I have read Spicer's book,
    but I do not remember his words.
    So, this will be horrid, but
    here are my blank-spaces words:
    that
    sea
    eyes
    -
    red
    black
    -
    days
    nights
    -
    white
    ragged
    memory
    -
    sea vacancy
    white

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  7. Judy Roitman9:49 p. m.

    Fill in all the blanks with one word.

    E.g.: love.

    Another one that works: death (maybe with a few modifications of form)

    And semi-alternations of breath and air work too, e.g. (In air endlessness/Snow, breathe salt/He lost his breath...)

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  8. Jesse6:52 p. m.

    I'm with Julie Carter. Unless.. no, I won't say it. I'm totally with those feelings.

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