Tristan TZARA – Autographed signed poem – Out of this world.  

Tristan TZARA (1896-1963)

Signed autograph poem – Out of this world.  

Two quarto pages on cream paper. No place [1945-46]

A long poem of thirty-two lines published in his collection Entre-temps, in 1946

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Out of this world

She goes, disturbing the shadows with singing furrows

that their gazes strewn with the storm of defeat

deep as the flower that would cover the earth

of a loneliness, of a hand outstretched at a street corner

Stretching in vain – rigid – the shame of refusal

no longer knows how to discover nascent dwellings

where death exhausts its painful tears

by constantly cultivating the oblivion of the survivors.

She removes the traps, rejecting the insult

They kissed lips that spoke of a past

light and tender, rather than serious slowness

universes linked to the roots of childhood

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but the beauties present are fine hair

plants with a distinctive appearance, like veins

of those who are to come in the abundance of days

She knows only sorrow; she breaks poverty

eternal among us, not knowing how to die

and no longer being able to be, she carries the weight

of the smile and the nakedness of his presence

which the evening already erases from the white hair of her face.

Tristan TZARA

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Meanwhile , it was published in 1946 by Le calligraphe , with illustrations by Henri Laurens.