Tristan TZARA (1896-1963)
Signed autograph poem – Out of the world.
Two pages in-4° on cream paper. Slnd [1945-46]
Long poem of thirty-two lines published in his collection Entre-temps, in 1946
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Out of the world
she will disturb the shadows with singing furrows
that the looks dotted with their stormy defeat
deep like the flower that would cover the earth
of a solitude of outstretched hand at the corner of a street
Tender in vain – rigid – the shame of refusal
no longer knows how to discover emerging homes
where death exhausts its painful tears
by dint of flourishing the oblivion of the survivors.
she removes the traps where rejecting the insult
locked lips that speak of a past
light and tender than serious slowness
of universes linked to the roots of childhood
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but present beauties of fine hair
plants that look like veins
of those who will come in the abundance of days
she only knows pain, she breaks poverty
among us eternal not knowing how to die
and no longer able to be she carries the weight
of the smile and the nudity of his presence
which the evening has already erased from the white hairs of his face.
Tristan TZARA
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Entretemps was published in 1946, published by Le calligraphe , with illustrations by Henri Laurens.