«Énée racontant à Didon les malheurs de la ville de Troie», de Guérin, via «A Postcard from John Ashbery» de Frank O’Hara
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Pierre-Narcisse Guérin
Énée racontant à Didon les malheurs de la ville de Troie
Oli sobre tela, 1815
A POSTCARD FROM JOHN ASHBERY
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What a message! what a picture!
all pink and gold and classical,
a romantic French sunset for a
change. And the text could not
but inspire—with its hint
of traduction, renaissance, and
Esperanto: verily, The Word! By
what wit do we compound in an
eye «Enée racontant à Didon les
malheurs de la Ville de Troie»
(suburban sexuality and the
milles fleurs that were Rome!)
with «Äneas erzählt Dido das
Missgeschick der Stadt Troya»
(truisms and immer das ewig
Weibliche!) and (garlic oscura,
balliamo! balliamo, my foreign
lover!) «Enea che racconta à
Didone le disgrazie della Città
de Troia» followed by yet an-
other, yet wait! in excess perhaps
but as gleaming as the fandango
that echoes through all of Ravel
“Eneas contando a Dido las desgracias
de la Ciudad de Troya”? (let me
dance! get your hands off me!)
for Guérin was thinking of Moors
and Caramba! flesh is exciting,
even in empirical pictures! No?
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Frank O’Hara
Lectures addicionals:
Iriarte, Fabián O. “Emitido con estática : Los poemas interferidos de Frank O’Hara“
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Frank O’Hara
The Collected Poems
Edited by Donald Allen
University of California Press. 1995
ISBN: 9780520201668
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