College of One (Neversink) by Graham Sheilah

Author:Graham, Sheilah [Graham, Sheilah]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
ISBN: 9781612192840
Publisher: Melville House
Published: 2013-05-28T04:00:00+00:00

U—cycle of time, rhythm of seas

Peace of the paws of animals and wrinkles

On scholars’ brows, strident tinkles

On the Supreme trumpet note, peace of the spheres, of the angels. O equals

X ray of her eyes; it equals Sex.

I memorized them all, some in English, some in French, for sheer intellectual joy. Verlaine’s “Il pleure dans mon coeur comme il pleut sur la ville,” and the four stanzas from Rimbaud’s “Bâteau Ivre” ending with “O, que ma quille éclate! O, que j’aille àla mer!” I walked around declaiming the lines as fervently as I had recited poetry and songs at the orphanage. And Eliot’s “I grow old … I grow old … I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled,” and “We have lingered in the chambers of the sea … Till human voices wake us and we drown.” And “Of lonely men in shirt-sleeves, leaning out of windows.” The imagery affected me as though I had been blind and was seeing for the first time.

At the back of From These Roots, Scott penciled:

Poe influenced Baudelaire (184)

influenced Rimbaud

influenced Lafargue (339)

influenced Eliot.

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