The Latin Poet Marcus Valerius Martialis (known in English as Martial), born between 38 and 41 AD and who died between 102 and 104 AD, is known for his Epigrams, a collection of short poems grouped into 12 “Books”. The original poems in Latin can be found in The Latin Library, Bibliotheca Augustana and Wikisource. Here I will use the English translation given by The Tertullian Project. CONTINUE READING / CONTINUER LA LECTURE…
Vous voulez bien fermer un petit peu vos si jolis rayons de miel sur mes fautes et me laisser vous embrasser parce que je vous aime bien et que votre figure sent mon jardin le matin, et j’embrasse la dame au col blanc.
— Minou Drouet, Lettre à Lucette Descaves, Arbre, mon ami, p. 73
Dans sa petite enfance, Minou Drouet s’ouvrit au monde grâce à la musique, qui devint sa grande passion. Aussi ses premiers sentiments de type amoureux s’adressèrent à Lucette Descaves, son professeur de piano, qu’elle appelait « mon Amour » et à qui elle écrivit de belles lettres emplies de tendresse. J’ai déjà reproduit dans un précédent article certaines d’entre elles, qui illustraient son univers fait de musique et d’odeurs. Ici je présente des extraits de plusieurs autres lettres, exprimant toute la puissance de la passion qui animait cette petite fille de huit ans. Pleines de poésie, elles font appel à des images frappantes, et certaines contiennent des vers. CONTINUE READING / CONTINUER LA LECTURE…
In Crowley’s collection Oracles, the poem “Ode to Sappho” is immediately followed by its companion “In a lesbian meadow,” on the same topic of love between girls. Through these beautiful verses shines a soft eroticism, mixing tender kisses with the beauties of nature—indeed, arising from true love. CONTINUE READING / CONTINUER LA LECTURE…
La passion sauvage de l’amour se moque des conventions sociales. Sa fureur incendiaire ravage tout sur son passage, emportant les âmes. Les véritables amants, révoltés insoumis, s’attirent immanquablement la haine et la persécution. CONTINUE READING / CONTINUER LA LECTURE…
Crowley’s 1905 collection Oracles, subtitled The Biography of an Art, consists of unpublished poems written between 1886 and 1903. According to The 100th Monkey Press, Crowley had planned to publish a special limited edition, printed in one hundred copies only, and containing additional matter; however it never materialized. Moreover, ten poems in it were originally meant to appear in a separate collection titled Green Alps, which was never published, as a fire at the publisher destroyed it. CONTINUE READING / CONTINUER LA LECTURE…
John Lee Curtis Williamson, better known as Sonny Boy Williamson I, was an American blues harmonica player, singer and songwriter. He was born in Madison County, Tennessee, near Jackson, on March 30th, 1914. At age 16 he started to follow the Mississippi River north with his harmonica to seek a life as a musician. For this reason, he picked up the nickname Sonny Boy. CONTINUE READING / CONTINUER LA LECTURE…
Michel Polnareff est un auteur-compositeur-interprète et pianiste français, né le 3 juillet 1944 à Nérac (Lot-et-Garonne). Il connut un large succès dans la deuxième moitié des années 1960, il était alors un emblème de la génération Salut les copains. Sa carrière déclina par la suite. CONTINUE READING / CONTINUER LA LECTURE…
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…
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…
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…
