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160 pages, Paperback
Published January 21, 1994
‘Et, dès lors, je me suis baigné dans le poème
De la mer infusé d'astres et lactescent,
Dévorant les azurs verts où, flottaison blême
Et ravie, un noyé pensif, parfois, descend;
Thenceforward, fused in the poem, milk of stars,
Of the sea, I coiled through deeps of cloudless green,
Where, dimly, they come swaying down,
Rapt and sad, singly, the drowned;�
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‘Glaciers, soleil, d'argent, flots nacreux, cieux de braises,
Echouages hideux au fond des golfes bruns
Où les serpents géants dévorés des punaises
Choient des arbres tordus avec de noirs parfums.
Iridescent waters, glaciers, suns of silver, flagrant skies,
And dark creeks' secret ledges, horror-strewn,
Where giant reptiles, pullulant with lice,
Lapse with dark perfumes from the writhing trees.�
'And since then I’ve been bathing in the Poem
Of star-infused and milky Sea,
Devouring the azure greens, where, flotsom pale,
A brooding corpse at times drifts by;'
- Louise Varèse,
'And from then on, I immersed myself in the Poem
Of the Sea, infused by stars and lactescent,
Devouring the green azure; where a floater pale
And happy, a pensive carcass, might descend;'
- Mark Polizzotti,