Jean GENET – Autograph poem – Our Lady and Seck in bed.
Superb prison poem, first draft, with erasures and corrections.
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Superb prison poem, first draft, with erasures and corrections.
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Jean Genet – (1910.1986)
Autograph poem.
Half a page in quarto on graph paper. No place (1942).
Typed note: Notre Dame and Seck in bed.
Superb prison poem, first draft, with erasures and corrections, composed of three quatrains in alexandrines, linked to the composition of his first novel Notre-Dame-des-Fleurs, published in 1943.
Cathedral, slow-moving, through my moors, come
Under a dark gaze, Our Lady of the Flowers
From my death, the procession to the nocturnal colors
Walk lightly along your gentle avenues.
This Africa is made of copper where grace is gloomy.
Raise up within its depths the miners' regret.
They work the wells of this prison of love
Or, breeze, snow, flower, do not settle beneath their fingers.
The chains of silence weigh heavily on his neck
This gaunt diver, black with the salt of your seas.
The frost dancer is her aerial hero.
I speak, between my teeth, the golden iron of the lances.
Jean Genet, poems found in The Condemned Man and Other Poems followed by The Tightrope Walker – nrf Poésie/Gallimard