Ma belle de quatre mille jours, je bois tes doux baisers de cerise, ta fleur blanche me captive, engloutis-moi ! CONTINUE READING / CONTINUER LA LECTURE…
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My wife dies, by Aleister Crowley
The collection Oracles, subtitled The Biography of an Art, consists of unpublished poems written by Crowley between 1886 and 1903. It was first published in 1905, then included in Volume II of The Collected Works of Aleister Crowley (1906), where the editor mentions:
Concerning the title Crowley writes, “The sense is of dead leaves drifting in the dusty cave of my mind.”
My first choice in it is a strange love poem, both sensuous and grim. CONTINUE READING / CONTINUER LA LECTURE…
Soir de Vendange, par Antonine Coullet
Provenant de la section Choses Vues du recueil Poésies d’une Enfant, un charmant poème bucolique écrit par une fille de 10 ans. CONTINUE READING / CONTINUER LA LECTURE…
Poésies, par Isidore Ducasse
Isidore Lucien Ducasse, né à Montevideo (Uruguay) le 4 avril 1846, et mort à Paris le 24 novembre 1870, est connu surtout pour Les Chants de Maldoror qu’il publia en Belgique en 1869 sous le pseudonyme de Comte de Lautréamont. En 1870 il fit publier publier à Paris sous son nom, Isidore Ducasse, deux fascicules de ses Poésies. Le site Maldoror précise à ce propos :
Ducasse semble avoir voulu en faire une “publication permanente”, à l’image des très nombreuses feuilles qui se publiaient à la fin du second Empire. Il n’aura eu le temps de faire paraître que deux fascicules de ce mystérieux périodique, déposés l’un le 9 avril et l’autre le 14 juin 1870, mais découverts seulement en 1891 par Remy de Gourmont. Il faudra attendre 1919 pour qu’André Breton recopie ces textes sur l’exemplaire unique de la Bibliothèque Nationale et les publie dans Littérature.
En effet, Ducasse mourut peu après, et ne put donc pas préparer des fascicules supplémentaires. Malgré son titre, Poésies n’est pas un recueil de vers, ni même de poèmes en prose ; il s’agit plutôt d’une suite d’aphorismes et de réflexions sur la littérature. CONTINUE READING / CONTINUER LA LECTURE…
The unloved and untouched children of sex panic
In a gruesome country called “the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland” reigns a horrible panic about children and sex. Anyone can come forward and accuse a dead person of the most bizarre form of sexual abuse, then he or she will automatically be believed and granted the “victim status,” an easy and quick way to gain public recognition. The discredited theories of “recovered memories,” which led to thousands of broken lives and shattered families in the USA, still enjoy public support in the “UK,” and are used to accuse ever more people of sexual abuse. Journals and the Internet have been filled with conspiracy theories about Lords, Members of Parliament, even ministers, involved in “paedophile conspiracies” to rape children in various ways, in particular by inserting tools into their anuses. This land has a distinctive institution, the gutter press, generally printed in “tabloid” format, whose so-called “journalists” can make a career by spreading the wildest nonsense. CONTINUE READING / CONTINUER LA LECTURE…
Poésies d’une Enfant, par Antonine Coullet
L’OCÉAN
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Le murmure des mers est plus triste la nuit.
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Antonine Coullet est née à La Roche-sur-Yon le 10 janvier 1892. À 9 ans elle commença à écrire de petits poèmes. Des adultes fascinés par ce don — pourtant pas si exceptionnel à cet âge — décidèrent en 1902 de publier ses vers. Ainsi parut début 1903 (mais achevé d’imprimer le 17 novembre 1902) son recueil Poésies d’une Enfant (71 pages), publié par Alphonse Lemerre à Paris. CONTINUE READING / CONTINUER LA LECTURE…
Eulalie, by Edgar Allan Poe
I present today a poem that celebrates the love of a young girl; it tells how the poet emerged from “a world of moan” and found happiness when he encountered his bride, the “young Eulalie”, a “radiant girl” who brightened his life. CONTINUE READING / CONTINUER LA LECTURE…
The Egg of the Albatross, by Eric Stenbock
Eric Stenbock published in 1894 a collection of seven short studies, Studies of Death, subtitled Romantic Tales. As indicated by the title, most of these stories are macabre, ending in the death of some protagonists. For nearly a hundred years this book was quite forgotten, and almost unobtainable. In 1984, the Garland publishing house reprinted the 1894 edition, together with The Shadow of Death (1893), Stenbock’s third collection of poetry. Then in 1996 the Durtro publishing house (of David Tibet) reprinted Studies of Death, adding to it the short story “The Other Side: A Breton Legend,” which had originally been published separately in The Spirit Lamp (Vol. IV, No. 2, 6 June 1893, pages 52–68). CONTINUE READING / CONTINUER LA LECTURE…
Yokohama Garland, by Alfred Edgar Coppard
Alfred Edgar Coppard (1878–1957) was an English author, best known for his short stories, but who also wrote poetry. After a youth spent in poverty, around 1920 he joined a literary group in Oxford, then published his first book in 1921; he continued writing and publishing throughout his life. CONTINUE READING / CONTINUER LA LECTURE…
Sapphics, by Eric Stenbock
Count Eric Stenbock (1860–1895) is a lesser-known ‘Decadent’ writer. In his short lifetime, he published three short collections of poetry, Love, Sleep & Dreams (1881), Myrtle, Rue and Cypress (1883) and The Shadow of Death (1893), a collection of short stories, Studies of Death (1894), and a separate short story, “The Other Side: A Breton Legend,” in The Spirit Lamp (Vol. IV, No. 2 June 1893). CONTINUE READING / CONTINUER LA LECTURE…