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Subject: DADAISM Matches Found: 237 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 0,50, by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Did you take the ten-cent piece Last Line: I took it Alternate Author Name(s): Kostrowitzky, Wilhelm Apollina Subject(s): Dadaism 1 4 2 2 -M, by GUILLERMO DE TORRE Poem Source First Line: The red automobile's licence plate Last Line: Of brains and automobiles %a cygnetic question Subject(s): Dadaism 2:00 P.M.-EVENING, by GINO CANTARELLI Poem Source First Line: Great barbarous symphony Last Line: Electricity gold mercury dreaming of some %sort of folly Subject(s): Dadaism 391, by RICHARD HUELSENBECK Poem Source First Line: The young hounds climb out of the hollows and bay Last Line: The young hounds hunt and bay %it is a great time Subject(s): Dadaism A MINUTE OF SILENCE, by PHILIPPE SOUPAULT Poem Text First Line: I abandon this too powerful repose Last Line: The clouds kiss in a swoop. Subject(s): Abandonment; Dadaism; Night; Silence; Sleep; Desertion; Bedtime AFFECTIONATE, by ELSA VON FREYTAG-LORINGIVEN Poem Source First Line: Wheels are growing on rose-bushes Last Line: Be drunk forever and more %-with lemon appendicitis? Subject(s): Dadaism ALARM, by CELINE ARNAULD Poem Source First Line: Sentiments Last Line: The cemeteries extend to the dead grass... %watch out for the open graves Subject(s): Dadaism AMONG THIEVES, by CELINE ARNAULD Poem Source First Line: But the play of the violin bow Last Line: The composer died %at the end of his song Subject(s): Dadaism ANECDOTE, by TRISTAN TZARA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Giants of rain cool of summer Last Line: I'm a horse I'm a river %I go on awkwardly but I go on Alternate Author Name(s): Rosenstock, Sami; Rosenfeld, S. Subject(s): Dadaism ANGEL, by TRISTAN TZARA Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Color recomposes / the liquid hanged men Alternate Author Name(s): Rosenstock, Sami; Rosenfeld, S. Subject(s): Dadaism; Jews; Mysticism - Judaism; Judaism ANNA BLOSSOM HAS WHEELS, by KURT SCHWITTERS Poem Source First Line: O thou, beloved of my twenty seven senses Last Line: Love %thine! Subject(s): Dadaism ANOTHER TIME, by PHILIPPE SOUPAULT Poem Source First Line: Faithfulness of the evening Last Line: One more time %and then another time Subject(s): Dadaism APPROACH, by TRISTAN TZARA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Magic step of unfinished nights Last Line: That drops away from the necklace of our dreams of oblivion Alternate Author Name(s): Rosenstock, Sami; Rosenfeld, S. Subject(s): Dadaism APPROXIMATE MAN: 1, by TRISTAN TZARA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sunday heavy lid on the boiling of blood Last Line: I think of the heat weaving the word %around its kernel the dream called us Alternate Author Name(s): Rosenstock, Sami; Rosenfeld, S. Subject(s): Dadaism ARPEGGIO, by JOAN PEREZ-JORBA Poem Source First Line: Some light with the dreadnoughts on its heels Last Line: Like eyes %and bizarre Subject(s): Dadaism ARTICHOKES, by GEORGES RIBEMONT-DESSAIGNES Poem Source First Line: Dada, having on a few years or months or days to love Last Line: But dada is difficult to deflower: the virgin is narrow Subject(s): Dadaism AUTUMN ETERNAL, by PHILIPPE SOUPAULT Poem Source First Line: To crush memories like dead leaves Last Line: And we no longer have to choose %choose the smoke the wind will devour Subject(s): Dadaism BEST PLASTER ALSO RED BLESSING, by WALTER SERNER Poem Source First Line: Crockery tumbling on the ground: Last Line: Coitus would become everyone's favorite party game; %every store would have to carry it. Enough Subject(s): Dadaism BIFURCATION, by TRISTAN TZARA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I don't want to leave you Last Line: But only your voice is delicate %as your had is delicate as the evening is intangible as the Alternate Author Name(s): Rosenstock, Sami; Rosenfeld, S. Subject(s): Dadaism BIM BIM..., by HANS ARP Poem Source First Line: Bim bim dim down you short child Last Line: So too the wave chamber %so too anal love Subject(s): Dadaism BLOOD OF THE SKY, by PHILIPPE SOUPAULT Poem Source First Line: Bracelets of night and sky Last Line: With a wave of the hand %far-away days %sky night heart and blood Subject(s): Dadaism BOWED HEAD, by PHILIPPE SOUPAULT Poem Source First Line: A farm a mill a farm Last Line: Everyday of the earth %and the choking night %the night black as ink %and sleep Subject(s): Dadaism BRAIN AT THE WHEEL, by MATTHEW JOSEPHSON Poem Source First Line: To the man who knows Last Line: Clamp it on the mirror, clamp it on %the table, clamp it on the bed, clamp it on the chair, or anywh Subject(s): Dadaism BREATH, by JULIUS EVOLA Poem Source First Line: The snow falls in the hot rubber sureries peacock rondeau, or Last Line: Incurably in the hospital wards %the snow Subject(s): Dadaism BRIC-A-BRAC, by GUILLERMO DE TORRE Poem Source First Line: Vibrationist apotheosis Last Line: It is the polymorphous hour %and I will land tomorrow Subject(s): Dadaism C2H2, by JOSEP MARIA JUNOY Poem Source First Line: Pale blisters Last Line: Prr... %violets Subject(s): Dadaism CACODYLATE, by FRANCIS PICABIA Poem Source First Line: Her parade whose effervescence has pitiless boundaries Last Line: In this bruised place of frowning calm %like the entrance to a new marriage bed Subject(s): Dadaism CALENDAR, by PHILIPPE SOUPAULT Poem Source First Line: The smoke of cigars Last Line: They also withstand the heat of the years Subject(s): Dadaism CAST SHADOWS; .. TO RELATE TO NOTES ON 4-DIM'L PERSPECTIVE, by MARCEL DUCHAMP Poem Source First Line: After the bride Last Line: Like some jets of water which weave forms in their transparency Subject(s): Dadaism CASTING OFF, by TRISTAN TZARA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The ship frees itself from death thick with little windows Last Line: A piece of fruit bit into the midnights piling up %nettles are nettles fate is full of them %enough Alternate Author Name(s): Rosenstock, Sami; Rosenfeld, S. Subject(s): Dadaism CATASTROPHE, by PIERRE ALBERT-BIROT Poem Source First Line: The light was artificial the two sentiments met like two rains Last Line: Then the earth began to wheel again %then the subway left again Subject(s): Dadaism CHANSON DADA, by TRISTAN TZARA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This is the song of the dadaist Last Line: Eat your meat Alternate Author Name(s): Rosenstock, Sami; Rosenfeld, S. Subject(s): Dadaism CHILD, by FRANCIS PICABIA Poem Source First Line: Autumn is tarnished Last Line: Then disappears %like a butterfly... Subject(s): Dadaism CHURCH LEAPT UP, by PHILIPPE SOUPAULT Poem Source Subject(s): Dadaism CLEAR-HEADED SPLENDORS AND MISERIES, by FERNINAND HARDEKOPF Poem Source First Line: From the steep, transparent noodle Last Line: The star with a wineglass, %in which some egg-yolk dies away Subject(s): Dadaism COLD EYE, by FRANCIS PICABIA Poem Source First Line: After our death we should be put into a ball. This ball would be Last Line: And all %the redskins are stationmasters! Subject(s): Dadaism COMPLETE CIRCUIT OF MOON AND COLOR, by TRISTAN TZARA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The iron eye will change to gold Last Line: The reds will march to make it all clear %when I ask how %the graves howl %lord my geometry Alternate Author Name(s): Rosenstock, Sami; Rosenfeld, S. Subject(s): Dadaism COMPLETE SOUND-POEMS OF HUGO BALL, by HUGO BALL Poem Source First Line: Elomen elomen lefitalominal Last Line: Zick hiti zopp Subject(s): Dadaism COMRADE, by PHILIPPE SOUPAULT Poem Source First Line: Frivolous months frivolous smoke Last Line: My head in my hands %and my hands in my head Subject(s): Dadaism CONDEMNED, by PHILIPPE SOUPAULT Poem Source First Line: Warm night fallen night Last Line: The sound of the gallop %of a bell %forgotten %forgotten Subject(s): Dadaism; World War Ii CONJUNCTION ABYSS, by RAFAEL LASSO DE LA VEGA Poem Source First Line: The solitary corner other times Last Line: Or the player piano at these times with all the magazines %and a beautiful face known until the next Subject(s): Dadaism CORDIAL GREETINGS, by PHILIPPE SOUPAULT Poem Source First Line: Boats muffled lanterns Last Line: You are there %me too Subject(s): Dadaism CUT FLOWER, by FRANCIS PICABIA Poem Source First Line: We inhabited the same age Last Line: Twice inserted its batteries %into a box of bizarre matches Subject(s): Dadaism DADA, by PHILIPPE SOUPAULT Poem Text First Line: Intelligence has a future Last Line: Dada is dada. Subject(s): Dadaism; Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals DADA LANDSCAPE, by JULIUS EVOLA Poem Source First Line: Gdaaaara the black flame rinses the second sky Last Line: To the great serpent ea %midday Subject(s): Dadaism DADA MANIFESTO ON FEEBLE & BITTER LOVE, SELS., by TRISTAN TZARA Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Rosenstock, Sami; Rosenfeld, S. Subject(s): Dadaism DAGGER IN THE WOUND, by PHILIPPE SOUPAULT Poem Source First Line: Not yet dead but that will come Last Line: To believe in death %is to want to forget the seasons %and the years and the reasons Subject(s): Dadaism DEATH OF GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE, by TRISTAN TZARA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We don't know a thing Last Line: Death would be a long beautiful voyage %and endless vacation from the flesh from structures and from Alternate Author Name(s): Rosenstock, Sami; Rosenfeld, S. Subject(s): Apollinaire, Guillaume (1880-1918); Dadaism; Poetry And Poets; Surrealism DEATH OF GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE, by TRISTAN TZARA Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: We know nothing Last Line: Death would be a fine long journey %and limitless holidays for flesh structures and bones Alternate Author Name(s): Rosenstock, Sami; Rosenfeld, S. Subject(s): Apollinaire, Guillaume (1880-1918); Dadaism; Poetry And Poets; Surrealism DESIRE, by KURT SCHWITTERS Poem Source First Line: And %without Last Line: The grass Subject(s): Dadaism DIANA, by RAFAEL LASSO DE LA VEGA Poem Source First Line: The shop assistant passing on his bicycle sorcery Last Line: Sherbet and movies weekly restaurant %sun-dried arabic of the tea dances fortune telling Subject(s): Dadaism DINGDONG RESONANCE 1, by JOHANNES THEODOR BAARGELD Poem Source First Line: Baby-grand alwa strikes its wing-feather Last Line: And eternity's scissor-telescope troubles itself as alwe %tinkling lifeless alwa country vegetables Subject(s): Dadaism DOUBTS, by TRISTAN TZARA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I took out of the box an old dream, just as you choose %a hat Last Line: And I called to you to tell me--without making any mistake--%what is real and what is not real Alternate Author Name(s): Rosenstock, Sami; Rosenfeld, S. Subject(s): Dadaism DUST, by PHILIPPE SOUPAULT Poem Source First Line: Tiny springtimes in bright shoes Last Line: Nothing more to do but open our eyes %day won and day lost Subject(s): Dadaism EACH OF HER BREASTS, by GEORGES RIBEMONT-DESSAIGNES Poem Source First Line: Each of her breasts ends in a goose feather which scarifies her Last Line: I will tell everyone that I am a minister and a sweeper %butin the obscure corners I will make love Subject(s): Dadaism EASIER SAID THAN DONE, by TRISTAN TZARA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Whatever he says whatever he does Last Line: Written eyes closed %in smooth foamy words %on a sea of vanity %though I've never understood it Alternate Author Name(s): Rosenstock, Sami; Rosenfeld, S. Subject(s): Dadaism EUNUCH UNIQUE, SELS., by FRANCIS PICABIA Poem Source First Line: Let's try the present hour Last Line: Fallen among a pagan %sets a sofa ajar Subject(s): Dadaism EUPHORIA, by JOSEP MARIA JUNOY Poem Source First Line: Nude body in the sun Last Line: Spiral of laughter Subject(s): Dadaism EVENING, by TRISTAN TZARA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Fishermen return with the stars of the waters Last Line: As they think about their little ones %let's make it Alternate Author Name(s): Rosenstock, Sami; Rosenfeld, S. Subject(s): Dadaism EVENING, by TRISTAN TZARA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Fishermen return with waterstars Last Line: Then they remember their calves %let's go Alternate Author Name(s): Rosenstock, Sami; Rosenfeld, S. Subject(s): Dadaism EVENING HOLDS OUT ITS ARMS, by PHILIPPE SOUPAULT Poem Source Last Line: The cries of deaf mutes %turn and rise Subject(s): Dadaism EVERYDAY, by FRANCIS PICABIA Poem Source First Line: The night glistens like leaves of glass Last Line: Crutch %in the house I am on a stepladder Subject(s): Dadaism EXECUTION: POEM 9, by KURT SCHWITTERS Poem Source First Line: Someone desired anna blume's execution. Execution triggers Last Line: Anna blume greens the wilt Subject(s): Dadaism FALSE PIECE, by ANDRE BRETON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the crystal vase from bohemia Last Line: Ephemeral dawn of reflections Subject(s): Dadaism FALSE PIECE, by ANDRE BRETON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the crystal vase from bohemia Last Line: Ephemeral %ephemeral dawn of reflections Subject(s): Dadaism FIBER CATCHES FIRE AND THE PYRAMIDS, by JULIUS EVOLA Poem Source First Line: Aeaeaeaeaeaea eda the vertical dikes light up ledah ega Last Line: Hhhaa he signed the quadruple %bregan aeaeaeaeaeaaaa Subject(s): Dadaism FIFI, by JOHANNES BAADER Poem Source First Line: Measured repair special structural work...Fifi puts 16 eggs in the Last Line: Sell my 16 chicks on the black-market: one for seventeen, one %for fifteen, one for fourteen billion Subject(s): Dadaism FLAME, by PHILIPPE SOUPAULT Poem Source First Line: A torn envelope enlarges my room Last Line: Departure %I had forgotten my suitcase Subject(s): Dadaism FLIGHT, by KURT SCHWITTERS Poem Source First Line: The germans are coming Last Line: I can still get another postcard off to helma. %it'll get through Subject(s): Dadaism FLIGHT OUT OF TIME, SELS., by HUGO BALL Poem Source First Line: I have invented a new species of poetry, 'verses wihtout words' Last Line: My body bathed in sweat and like a magic bishop Subject(s): Dadaism; Poetry And Poets FLOWER LIKE A RAVEN, by KURT SCHWITTERS Poem Source First Line: A splashy '13' mirroed on the moon Last Line: And pulses flow by millions. %road enstarring %flowers Subject(s): Dadaism FOR DANCING ONLY, by PHILIPPE SOUPAULT Poem Source First Line: Misery misery dressed in shreds Last Line: We'll find once more the chickadees %the dragonflies the young ladies Subject(s): Dadaism FOR ROBERT DESNOS, by TRISTAN TZARA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the white of my thought Last Line: My secret my reason for being %and the world Alternate Author Name(s): Rosenstock, Sami; Rosenfeld, S. Subject(s): Dadaism; Desnos, Robert (1900-1945); World War Ii FOR ROBERT DESNOS, by TRISTAN TZARA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: From the void of my mind Last Line: A face at my window %a joy floating %my secret my reason for being %and the world Alternate Author Name(s): Rosenstock, Sami; Rosenfeld, S. Subject(s): Dadaism FORBIDDEN FIRE, by TRISTAN TZARA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The night illuminated the night Alternate Author Name(s): Rosenstock, Sami; Rosenfeld, S. Subject(s): Dadaism FORBIDDEN FIRE: 11, by TRISTAN TZARA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You'll come back my very faraway one Last Line: You'll come back snow my very faraway one %the areas long overdue will be made of more than bread Alternate Author Name(s): Rosenstock, Sami; Rosenfeld, S. Subject(s): Dadaism FORBIDDEN FIRE: 2, by TRISTAN TZARA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A lamp goes out with a lazy laugh Last Line: Plans for dramas and cold weather are joined %by hands all-too friendly where thoughtless lips end Alternate Author Name(s): Rosenstock, Sami; Rosenfeld, S. Subject(s): Dadaism FORBIDDEN FIRE: 9, by TRISTAN TZARA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The night lit up the night Last Line: Neither hope nor lie %inventors of magic %as new as the world %would know how to refute it Alternate Author Name(s): Rosenstock, Sami; Rosenfeld, S. Subject(s): Dadaism FORWARD, by PHILIPPE SOUPAULT Poem Source First Line: Bend over Last Line: Round my thoughts %green fish %are spinning Subject(s): Dadaism FOUR BEAR SONGS, by KURT SCHWITTERS Poem Source First Line: Turn this way and that way Last Line: And like any freeborn person, continues to be the bear Subject(s): Dadaism FRESH AIR, by KENNETH KOCH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the poem society a black-haired man stands up to say Subject(s): Air; Dadaism; Poetry & Poets; Poetry Readings; Poetry Society Of America FRESH AIR, by KENNETH KOCH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the poem society a black-haired man stands up to say Last Line: O green, beneath which all of them shall drown! Subject(s): Air; Dadaism; Poetry And Poets; Poetry Readings; Poetry Society Of America FROM THE BACK & FROM THE FRONT TO START, by KURT SCHWITTERS Poem Source First Line: Labor volunteers. %sabotage strike hand grenades Last Line: Ways still to go.--the jews--the jews! Subject(s): Dadaism GADJI BERI BIMBA, by HUGO BALL Poem Source First Line: Gadji beri bimba glandridi laula lonni cadori Last Line: Gaga di bling blong %gaga blung Subject(s): Dadaism GEORGIA, by PHILIPPE SOUPAULT Poem Source First Line: I do not sleep georgia Last Line: I am waiting for you %georgia Subject(s): Dadaism GODS-LIGHT, by GINO CANTARELLI Poem Source First Line: The airplanes shape the atmosphere Last Line: Silence %dancing %lights Subject(s): Dadaism GOLD MEDAL, by PHILIPPE SOUPAULT Poem Source First Line: The night jostles its stars Last Line: We are waiting for the wind %that today must be blue %as a flag Subject(s): Dadaism GOODNIGHT, by PHILIPPE SOUPAULT Poem Source First Line: How lovely the moon is at noon Last Line: It's already morning %it is always morning Subject(s): Dadaism GRAMMAR, by PHILIPPE SOUPAULT Poem Source First Line: Maybe and always maybe Last Line: Once and for all %for it is nighttime %and dog days Subject(s): Dadaism GREAT COMPLAINT AGAINST MY OBSCURITY III, by TRISTAN TZARA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Where we come from, blossoms all over the clocks flare and Alternate Author Name(s): Rosenstock, Sami; Rosenfeld, S. Subject(s): Dadaism; Science Fiction GREAT LAMENT OF MY OBSCURITY THREE, by TRISTAN TZARA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Where we are the flowers in our clocks flare up their feathers ring the light Last Line: Hunger fire blood Alternate Author Name(s): Rosenstock, Sami; Rosenfeld, S. Subject(s): Dadaism GREAT TRUTH, by PHILIPPE SOUPAULT Poem Source First Line: It is not the future with its flags Last Line: All that I guess at and must not know %because I already love it Subject(s): Dadaism GREAT UNINHABITABLE HOUSE, by EUGENE GRINDEL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the middle of an astonishing island Last Line: Her larger eyes opened beneath the wind of her hands %she imagines the horizon has unbuckled its bel Alternate Author Name(s): Eluard, Paul Subject(s): Dadaism GREAT UNRESTRAINED SADIST, by HANS ARP Poem Source First Line: Before his immense window high as a cathedral window Last Line: Billions of little children - into orange marmalade Subject(s): Dadaism; Sadism GREEN CHILD: POEM 1, by KURT SCHWITTERS Poem Source First Line: Enjailed air steeps Last Line: Black dogs, %fly us away! Subject(s): Dadaism HAPPINESS, by FRANCIS PICABIA Poem Source First Line: I want objects Last Line: I proceed entirely %at random Subject(s): Dadaism HAT-TOMB, by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Marooned Last Line: Enough for me %I'll take a pee Alternate Author Name(s): Kostrowitzky, Wilhelm Apollina Subject(s): Dadaism HOLY SKIRTS, by ELSA VON FREYTAG-LORINGIVEN Poem Source First Line: Thought about holy skirts - to tune of 'wheels are growing on rose-bushes' Last Line: Power of power Subject(s): Dadaism HORIZON, by PHILIPPE SOUPAULT Poem Source First Line: The city came into my room Last Line: Bring me another lemonade and a last cigarette %I'm going back to paris Subject(s): Dadaism HORIZON; TO TRISTAN TZARA, by PHILIPPE SOUPAULT Poem Text Poem Explanation First Line: The whole town has come into my room Last Line: I'm going back to paris Subject(s): Dadaism HORSE, by TRISTAN TZARA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It's true I believed in the immense fervor of life. Each step Last Line: Going to be seen. But who can be sure the promises have beenkept? Alternate Author Name(s): Rosenstock, Sami; Rosenfeld, S. Subject(s): Dadaism HOTEL LIGHT, by TRISTAN TZARA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What greedy, devouring silence covers its listless victim, squeezed between Last Line: What were your running from, if not your own footsteps? Alternate Author Name(s): Rosenstock, Sami; Rosenfeld, S. Subject(s): Dadaism HOTELS, by PHILIPPE SOUPAULT Poem Source First Line: At midnight, you will still see the open windows and the Last Line: A steeple clock that beats at your head, silent as moldering%rock Subject(s): Dadaism HYMN, by JAKOV VAN HODDIS Poem Source First Line: Oh dream, digestion of my soul Last Line: Oh my firearm! %cluck! Cluck! Subject(s): Dadaism I'M LYING, by PHILIPPE SOUPAULT Poem Source First Line: My room is furnished with souvenirs from the islands Last Line: Sometimes we walk along talking of rain and good weather %weare laughing Subject(s): Dadaism ICE CLOCKS, by KURT SCHWITTERS Poem Source First Line: Boil clocks boil breathe ice Last Line: I drift around through life a dead fish Subject(s): Dadaism ING, by WALTER CONRAD ARENSBERG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ing? Is it possible to mean ing? Last Line: And the meaning is a possibility %of ralsis Subject(s): Dadaism IT IS AUTUMN, by KURT SCHWITTERS Poem Source First Line: It is autumn. The swans eat their masters' bread Last Line: Out. %it is autumn, and the swans autumnize also Subject(s): Dadaism IT'S FOR YOU, by PHILIPPE SOUPAULT Poem Source First Line: Since I was born Last Line: Who knows %and we're never sure %of not being wrong Subject(s): Dadaism JOY OF THE SEVEN COLORS, by PIERRE ALBERT-BIROT Poem Source First Line: He is a man enclosed in a picture on the screen Last Line: Man the tiny bird will eat the snake %black and white the projector is on the opposite sidewalk Subject(s): Dadaism KASPAR IS DEAD, by HANS ARP Poem Source First Line: Alas our good kaspar is dead Last Line: Leaves but small comfort or snuff for his death's head Subject(s): Dadaism KASPAR IS DEAD, by HANS ARP Poem Source First Line: Woe our good kaspar is dead Last Line: His bust will adorn the mantels of all truly noble men but that is no %consolation and snuff for a d Subject(s): Dadaism KASPAR IS DEAD, by HANS ARP Poem Source First Line: Alas our good kaspar is dead Last Line: His bust will grace the mantels of all truly noble men but that's no solace or snuff for a death's-h Subject(s): Dadaism L'AMIRAL CHERCHE UNE MAISON A LOUER (IN FRENCH), by RICHARD HUELSENBECK Poem Source Last Line: L'amiral n'a rien trouve Subject(s): Dadaism LET OLD FOOLS HAVE THE FLOOR, by PHILIPPE SOUPAULT Poem Source First Line: The moon wasn't born yesterday Last Line: Because a day will come %when I won't say another word %that's for sure Subject(s): Dadaism LETHAL RELIEF, by ANDRE BRETON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The statue of lautreamont / its plinth of quinine tabloids Last Line: Weighs anchor is tuned each night like a piano Subject(s): Dadaism LETHAL RELIEF, by ANDRE BRETON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The statue of lautreamont %its plinth of quinine tabloids Last Line: Weighs anchor is tuned each night like a piano Subject(s): Dadaism LIFE-SAVING MEDAL, by PHILIPPE SOUPAULT Poem Source First Line: My nose long like a knife Last Line: Or somebody else whose name I forgot Subject(s): Dadaism LIFESAVER'S MEDAL, by PHILIPPE SOUPAULT Poem Source First Line: My nose is long like a knife Last Line: And I am just a passing stranger %or someone whose name I've forgotten Subject(s): Dadaism LIKE A DOG, by JOAN PEREZ-JORBA Poem Source First Line: She runs like a dog after her dream Last Line: Think about it painlessly my heart %she is pale Subject(s): Dadaism LITTLE DAILY GHOSTS, by PHILIPPE SOUPAULT Poem Source First Line: Moon in a tree Last Line: Without creed or need %without flame or name %fear is a madwoman %with straight hair Subject(s): Dadaism LOUIS ARAGON, by PHILIPPE SOUPAULT Poem Source First Line: Your lovers dance around you Last Line: You have already forgotten me %god is far more handsome than I Subject(s): Dadaism LOVE SONGS TO JOANNES, by MINA LOY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spawn of fantasies Last Line: Love - the preeminent litterateur Alternate Author Name(s): Cravan, Arthur, Mrs.; Lowy, Mina Gertrude; Haweis, Stephen, Mrs. Variant Title(s): Songs To Joannes Subject(s): Dadaism; Love; Papini, Giovanni (1881-1956) LOW TIDE, by PHILIPPE SOUPAULT Poem Source First Line: I am dreaming of all the winds Last Line: Roses you are trembling %you who prefer the torture of twilight Subject(s): Dadaism MAGNETIC FIELDS, SELS., by ANDRE BRETON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The great legend of the railways and reservoirs Last Line: Amidst reputable company Subject(s): Dadaism MAISON ARAGON, by TRISTAN TZARA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Arp & the barbered arbor Last Line: O crisp chronometer Alternate Author Name(s): Rosenstock, Sami; Rosenfeld, S. Subject(s): Arp, Jean (1887-1966); Dadaism; Sculpture And Sculptors; Surrealism MAN, THE WOMAN, by HANS ARP Poem Source First Line: The egg of fire. The egg of water. The egg of wind in the silk bag Last Line: The leaves of man. The leaves of woman Subject(s): Dadaism MANIFESTO ON FEEBLE AND BITTER LOVE, by TRISTAN TZARA Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: To make a dada poem Last Line: The poem will be like you Alternate Author Name(s): Rosenstock, Sami; Rosenfeld, S. Subject(s): Dadaism; Jews; Mysticism – Judaism; Poetry & Poets; Judaism MANURE, by BINO SAN MINIATELLI Poem Source First Line: Vital cloaks Last Line: Scarab passing by %mistook itself for a mirror Subject(s): Dadaism MARQUIS DE SADE REGAINED THE INTERIOR OF ... VOLCANO, by ANDRE BRETON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Caught in the gossamer of desire Subject(s): Dadaism; Sade, Marquis De (1740-1814) MAX ERNST, by EUGENE GRINDEL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In a corner the agile incest Last Line: Lamps shining very late %the first displays its breasts which red insects kill Alternate Author Name(s): Eluard, Paul Subject(s): Dadaism; Ernst, Max (1891-1976) MAX ERNST, by EUGENE GRINDEL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In one corner the nimble incest Alternate Author Name(s): Eluard, Paul Subject(s): Dadaism; Ernst, Max (1891-1976) MECHANICAL RAZOR, by PIERRE ALBERT-BIROT Poem Source First Line: Lie on your back and count the leaves on the trees Last Line: It is going to rain %to see Subject(s): Dadaism MERCURY LIGHTS, by GINO CANTARELLI Poem Source First Line: See the bright facades on silent gardens, in the dawn's light: Last Line: I am in her azure eyes life %nothing two kisses carnal pathos Subject(s): Dadaism METAL COUGHDROPS, by TRISTAN TZARA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Her bare feet tell the neurasthenic: fake moustaches on that ostrich Last Line: The boss tells the boss: boss Alternate Author Name(s): Rosenstock, Sami; Rosenfeld, S. Subject(s): Dadaism MIDNIGHT SALTS, by TRISTAN TZARA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: These two nerves that don't touch electric arc Alternate Author Name(s): Rosenstock, Sami; Rosenfeld, S. Subject(s): Dadaism; Science Fiction MIMICRY OF THE FLOWERS, by PHILIPPE SOUPAULT Poem Source First Line: Since you're told Last Line: Welcome the flowers of the sky %that sing the day and dream the night Subject(s): Dadaism MONSIEUR AA, ANTIPHILOSOPHER: 1, by TRISTAN TZARA Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Captain! %the rockets, the open forces of the waterfall threaten us Last Line: Watch out fir blue eyes Alternate Author Name(s): Rosenstock, Sami; Rosenfeld, S. Subject(s): Dadaism MORE THAN SUSPECT, by ANDRE BRETON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The oaks are stricken by a serious illness Last Line: A whole throngs of general's heads Subject(s): Dadaism; World War I; First World War MORE THAN SUSPECT, by ANDRE BRETON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The oaks are stricken by a serious illness Last Line: A whole throng of generals' heads Subject(s): Dadaism; World War I MORPHINE, by EMMY HENNINGS Poem Source First Line: We are waiting for one last adventure Last Line: We push unsteadily through life %and sleep, confused and exhausted... Subject(s): Dadaism MOTHERS, by TRISTAN TZARA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My friends are on vacation Last Line: They turn and croak over our harvests Alternate Author Name(s): Rosenstock, Sami; Rosenfeld, S. Subject(s): Dadaism MOVEMENT, by RAFAEL LASSO DE LA VEGA Poem Source First Line: Here is the wheel attached to the town Last Line: Beauty changes its infinite costume %and the doubtful enigma closes in four folds Subject(s): Dadaism MURDER MACHINE 43, by KURT SCHWITTERS Poem Source First Line: Greetings, 260 thousand ccm. Last Line: Even so: better watch out for spartacus! Subject(s): Dadaism MY HAND TREMBLES, by FRANCIS PICABIA Poem Text First Line: The bells are singing to wake the dead Last Line: Like birds of the fields. Subject(s): Dadaism; Death; Fear; Dead, The MYSTERY CORSET, by ANDRE BRETON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My darling lady readers Last Line: The waist well in hand Subject(s): Dadaism NIGHTWATCH, by PHILIPPE SOUPAULT Poem Source First Line: Brothers of the day and of the night Last Line: We strike we regret we desire %a body white %and the eyes %the eyes the eyes %the eyes Subject(s): Dadaism NINIE, by FRANCIS PICABIA Poem Text First Line: Perfumes, flowers, love, dancing, music Last Line: P.S. Don quixote is an example. Subject(s): Aphrodite; Dadaism; Italy; Mythology - Classical; Italians NO CHARGE FOR THE SENTIMENTS, by PHILIPPE SOUPAULT Poem Source First Line: Trace odor of sulfur Last Line: Caprice of monkeys %clock color of day Subject(s): Dadaism NOTHING BUT THIS LIGHT..., by PHILIPPE SOUPAULT Poem Source First Line: Nothing but this light sown by your hands Last Line: Sows drops of blood %a woman sleeps %near a flower bloated with water Subject(s): Dadaism OLD VIVISECTOR, by MAX ERNST Poem Source First Line: There on that hill, the general cried, I see thick lines of skirmishers Last Line: Germination of the spores. The incorrigible drunkard Subject(s): Dadaism ONE O'CLOCK, by PHILIPPE SOUPAULT Poem Source First Line: Here are the brains here the hearts Last Line: But this ash on the lips %this taste of ash in the mouth %forever Subject(s): Dadaism; World War Ii OPTIMISM UNVEILED, by TRISTAN TZARA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: For: %mundane tea-parties %matchbox-makers Alternate Author Name(s): Rosenstock, Sami; Rosenfeld, S. Subject(s): Dadaism; Science Fiction OX ON THE TONGUE: 14, by TRISTAN TZARA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Light on the sky's table. Sun has trouble penetrating the pebbly winter Last Line: Crackling. Markets swarming with wind-petaled words. Where we are, %lips smooth with everlasting thi Alternate Author Name(s): Rosenstock, Sami; Rosenfeld, S. Subject(s): Dadaism OX ON THE TONGUE: 15, by TRISTAN TZARA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing but nights; the derelict roaming the docks has no faith in himself Last Line: Fans stammer; the children reciting by heart the alphabet of sleep Alternate Author Name(s): Rosenstock, Sami; Rosenfeld, S. Subject(s): Dadaism PEIDERMIS OF THE NIGHT GROWTH, by TRISTAN TZARA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Promenade by the waters Last Line: Our special product %'inteligence' %the least-expensive and longest-lasting %on sale %everywhere %fo Alternate Author Name(s): Rosenstock, Sami; Rosenfeld, S. Subject(s): Dadaism PEOPLE, by HANS ARP Poem Source First Line: Modest chair people painted grey Last Line: Stylized moustaches %one above another Subject(s): Dadaism POEM, by TRISTAN TZARA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And what will ever replace it Alternate Author Name(s): Rosenstock, Sami; Rosenfeld, S. Subject(s): Dadaism; Science Fiction POEM IN YELLOW AFTER TRISTAN TZARA, by TRISTAN TZARA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Angel slide your hand Last Line: My yellow dingdong Alternate Author Name(s): Rosenstock, Sami; Rosenfeld, S. Subject(s): Dadaism POEM NO.48, by KURT SCHWITTERS Poem Source First Line: Stagger Last Line: Cry, cry, cry, cry, cry, %a wise man explodes without a salary Subject(s): Dadaism POEMS FROM SAINT PELAGIA PRISON 1., by PHILIPPE SOUPAULT Poem Source First Line: Wednesday on a barge Last Line: Monday and tuesday cold-blooded %four thursdays off from work Subject(s): Dadaism; Prisons And Prisoners; World War Ii POEMS FROM SAINT PELAGIA PRISON 2., by PHILIPPE SOUPAULT Poem Source First Line: A thread unravels Last Line: A butterfly explodes %chrysalis or glow worm Subject(s): Dadaism; Prisons And Prisoners; World War Ii POEMS FROM SAINT PELAGIA PRISON 3., by PHILIPPE SOUPAULT Poem Source First Line: Who mounts Last Line: And the three sleeping children %singular singular tale %tale of the setting sun Subject(s): Dadaism; Prisons And Prisoners; World War Ii PORTRAIT OF HERWARTH WALDEN, by KURT SCHWITTERS Poem Source First Line: Glide stillscape roading roads Last Line: The silk silks cotton wool a hand the hand Subject(s): Dadaism PORTRAITE DE TRISTAN TZARA, by FRANCIS PICABIA Poem Source First Line: Perfumes %flower Last Line: Certainties Subject(s): Dadaism; Tzara, Tristan (1896-1963) PRECISE BY SEA, TRANSPOSED, by TRISTAN TZARA Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Rosenstock, Sami; Rosenfeld, S. Subject(s): Dadaism; Science Fiction PUFFS OF SMOKE, by JOAN PEREZ-JORBA Poem Source First Line: He is thinking of trifles and is not listening Last Line: And goes off toward the seine %to discard puffs of his cigar smoke Subject(s): Dadaism PUNKA, by TRISTAN TZARA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: From the eaaaa aa arth spheeeeeeres Last Line: Iaoai xixixi xixi cla cla clo %drrrrrrr Alternate Author Name(s): Rosenstock, Sami; Rosenfeld, S. Subject(s): Dadaism R, by TIL BRUGMAN Poem Source First Line: R r Last Line: Stricken %struck Subject(s): Dadaism RAGTIME, by PHILIPPE SOUPAULT Poem Source First Line: The negro dances electrically Last Line: No one cares what time it is anymore %the tireless door %thelightbulbs %my hand %right? Subject(s): Dadaism REMEMBRANCE OF THE FOUNTS OF NIGHT, by CHRISTIAN EMIL MARIE KUPPER Poem Source First Line: Moon falls in shape of little metal plates against my face Last Line: & through my rigid jaws drink god's green blood Subject(s): Dadaism RESURRECTION, by GIUSEPPE RAIMONDI Poem Source First Line: Magic of the ancient lunar rainbows Last Line: Explosion in planes of light %the dawn's drumbeats destroy the heavens Subject(s): Dadaism RIDER, by THEO VAN DOESBURG Poem Source First Line: Step Last Line: Stoop %cloud Subject(s): Dadaism SAILOR, by TRISTAN TZARA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He is making love to a woman who has only one leg Last Line: Conjurer windmill hair styles all the ospreys are cankerous %egg-nog Alternate Author Name(s): Rosenstock, Sami; Rosenfeld, S. Subject(s): Dadaism SAY IT WITH MUSIC, by PHILIPPE SOUPAULT Poem Source First Line: The golden bracelets and the flags Last Line: I stop and wait for the light %paradise paradise paradise Subject(s): Dadaism SENTIMENTALITY STOPS HERE: I, by CLEMENT PANSAERS Poem Source First Line: I ring out Last Line: The broken pieces on the %stone floor echo the fragments in a... Subject(s): Dadaism SERVITUDES, by PHILIPPE SOUPAULT Poem Source First Line: Yesterday it was night out Last Line: The paper comes out tomorrow %wet paint %I will walk naked and carry a cane Subject(s): Dadaism SHE DOLLS WITH DOLLIES, by KURT SCHWITTERS Poem Source First Line: The dollies doll with little dollies Last Line: Guzzly dolly dolly lady %first they muzzle then they nuzzle Subject(s): Dadaism SHE HAS TWO HEADS, by JOAN PEREZ-JORBA Poem Source First Line: He wanted to kneel Last Line: In the spaces enclosed by walls %beneath the daylight's blue eyes Subject(s): Dadaism SIGHS, by PHILIPPE SOUPAULT Poem Source First Line: What time will you die mister Last Line: Let's sigh since we have to die %and sigh one last time Subject(s): Dadaism SIGN, by RAFAEL LASSO DE LA VEGA Poem Source First Line: Winged and descending Last Line: Semaphores of every color %signal goodbye without destiny Subject(s): Dadaism SILENCE PLEASE, by PHILIPPE SOUPAULT Poem Source First Line: The woman says dear the father says dearest Last Line: Let's keep our secret %we'll each be as good as our word Subject(s): Dadaism SKETCH, by PHILIPPE SOUPAULT Poem Source First Line: Scene 1. Characters: bathrobe, umbrella Last Line: Umbrella. -the table's for rent. %(the curtain falls) Subject(s): Dadaism SLIDE TROMBONE, by GEORGES RIBEMONT-DESSAIGNES Poem Source First Line: I have a small propeller on my head that turns in the wind Last Line: I throw morganatic dreams %to the turtledoves who laugh like hell Subject(s): Dadaism SMILE PLEASE, by PHILIPPE SOUPAULT Poem Source First Line: Death smiles Last Line: She looks into the distance %then closer and closer %as if she knew who was waiting Subject(s): Dadaism SONG, by PHILIPPE SOUPAULT Poem Text First Line: Mr. Mirror / clothier Last Line: It is dark night in paris Subject(s): Dadaism; Night; Paris, France; Singing & Singers; Bedtime SONG OF WAR, by TRISTAN TZARA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The scarecrows have grown taller in the fields Last Line: A song to sing like a saint: %'drive the nails in harder, I am not dead yet.' Alternate Author Name(s): Rosenstock, Sami; Rosenfeld, S. Subject(s): Dadaism SPECULATIONS, by MARCEL DUCHAMP Poem Source First Line: Can one make works which are not works of 'art'? Last Line: Rueing it as soon as possession is consummated. Q.E.D Subject(s): Dadaism SPERMAL CHIMNEY, by FRANCIS PICABIA Poem Source First Line: Haunch under the whip of douches in the slime Last Line: I only drag it out Subject(s): Dadaism SPIDER AT AN EXHIBITION: 2. JEAN ARP (SWISS), by CARL DJERASSI Poem Source First Line: Smooth, glistening cups Last Line: The spider wastes no time. %she passes Subject(s): Arp, Jean (1887-1966); Dadaism; Sculpture And Sculptors SPORTING GOODS, by PHILIPPE SOUPAULT Poem Source First Line: Fearless as a postage stamp Last Line: A lot of birds in the trees %a lot of salt in the sea %and furthermore a lot of other things Subject(s): Dadaism SPRING, by TRISTAN TZARA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: To place the child in the vase in the depths of midnight Last Line: The shards of glass in the bellies of the fleeing deer %on the points of the short black branches fo Alternate Author Name(s): Rosenstock, Sami; Rosenfeld, S. Subject(s): Dadaism STARFISH, by PHILIPPE SOUPAULT Poem Source First Line: It's stifling in here Last Line: The ferris wheel just stopped Subject(s): Dadaism STILL LIFE: THE TABLE, by CHRISTIAN EMIL MARIE KUPPER Poem Source First Line: Chaos %all muddled up Last Line: Between two clumps of clay %wedged tight Subject(s): Dadaism STORY OF NO INTEREST, by JOAN SALVAT-PAPASSEIT Poem Source First Line: The stock exchange's cadmium clock is still dissolved in the cold air and Last Line: I enter the stock exchange with my 'horse %power' Subject(s): Dadaism SUN, by HUGO BALL Poem Source First Line: Through the slits of my eyes a perambulator passes Last Line: Bright yellow town in the breeze like lampshades of tissue paper Subject(s): Dadaism SURCENSURE, by MARCEL DUCHAMP Poem Source First Line: I wish to state in the first place that Last Line: But take care! Subject(s): Dadaism SWANEE, by PHILIPPE SOUPAULT Poem Source First Line: Like the hands of a friendly drunk Last Line: But I see a tiny clock %that says tick tock %and bores me swanee %like my grandfather's calendar Subject(s): Dadaism SWIMMER, by PHILIPPE SOUPAULT Poem Source First Line: A thousand bird cries Last Line: When fatigue settles on my head %like a crown Subject(s): Dadaism SWIMMER, by PHILIPPE SOUPAULT Poem Source First Line: A thousand bird calls Last Line: When fatigue rests upon my head %like a crown Subject(s): Dadaism TAMBOURINE, by FRANCIS PICABIA Poem Source First Line: Habits have a crafty eye Last Line: One should go to the ends of the world %but the world's ends are faded from the sun Subject(s): Dadaism THE MAGNETIC FIELDS: FACTORY, by ANDRE BRETON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The great legend of the railways and reservoirs Last Line: Maliciously with the star of enlistment Subject(s): Dadaism; Factories THE MOON HAS TURNED AMISS, by TRISTAN TZARA Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Devouring its circle Last Line: Its name is john Alternate Author Name(s): Rosenstock, Sami; Rosenfeld, S. Subject(s): Dadaism THE MYSTERY CORSET, by ANDRE BRETON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My darling lady readers Last Line: A tightly bound waist Subject(s): Dadaism; Girdles THOU, by KURT SCHWITTERS Poem Source First Line: My sing is void Last Line: My yearning fars thine pray cry. %I %far thou Subject(s): Dadaism TINKLING RESONANCE 1I, by JOHANNES THEODOR BAARGELD Poem Source First Line: Citrus trees gather in the petroleum sky Last Line: Weather mannequin scratches its legs %until all tinkling has ceased Subject(s): Dadaism TO ANNA BLUME, by KURT SCHWITTERS Poem Source First Line: Oh you, beloved of my 27 senses, I love your! Last Line: You dripping animal, %I--------love-----------your! Subject(s): Dadaism TOWARDS A MORE PASSIONATE APPREHENSION OF LIFE AND DEDICATED, by MALCOLM COWLEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was an arduous task. The man must be a genius. Subject(s): Dadaism TOWARDS A MORE PASSIONATE APPREHENSION OF LIFE AND DEDICATED, by MALCOLM COWLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was an arduous task. The man must be a genius. Last Line: Manifestations %are geometrical not ethical Subject(s): Dadaism TRANSITION, by RAFAEL LASSO DE LA VEGA Poem Source First Line: Morning's airplane Last Line: Hues that rinse the silence %and all these things were already here Subject(s): Dadaism TWILIGHT SONG, by EMMY HENNINGS Poem Source First Line: Octaves stumble like echos through the gray years Last Line: The brightly colored picture in the book of fairytales, red hanne %once bewitched me for all eternit Subject(s): Dadaism UNDISCOVERABLE PAST, by TRISTAN TZARA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Gripped by stone pincers, the sea roars; the inquisitor's bow Last Line: Incomprehensible, snarled forever in a witch-grass mystery Alternate Author Name(s): Rosenstock, Sami; Rosenfeld, S. Subject(s): Dadaism UNWRAPPED FUSTANELLA, by MAX ERNST Poem Source First Line: Prusuant to your demand, I hereby permit you to replenish the 56 stages Last Line: And remember to quilt your six arches with stalactites as puff pastry Subject(s): Dadaism UR SONATA, SELS., by KURT SCHWITTERS Poem Source First Line: Third movement Last Line: Lanek trr gll Subject(s): Dadaism VISUAL POEM, by EMMANUEL RUDNITSKY RAY Poem Source Subject(s): Dadaism VISUAL POEM (1), by RAOUL HAUSMANN Poem Source First Line: Bbbb Last Line: Onooohhoouuumhn Subject(s): Dadaism VISUAL POEM (2), by RAOUL HAUSMANN Poem Source First Line: Kp'erioum lp'er ioum Subject(s): Dadaism VOLT, by TRISTAN TZARA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The leaning towers the slanted skies Last Line: While you too prowl other greater streets %around something Alternate Author Name(s): Rosenstock, Sami; Rosenfeld, S. Subject(s): Dadaism WAKING, by TRISTAN TZARA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Hasten toward immense and earthly joy, the eyelids blinking as they dance Last Line: Await you on the mineral hill of the incandescence of living Alternate Author Name(s): Rosenstock, Sami; Rosenfeld, S. Subject(s): Dadaism; World War Ii WALK, by FRANCESCO MERIANO Poem Source First Line: Dragged over there leopardi your breath stinks tomato paste vacuum Last Line: Infinity is ours %leopardi dragged over there your feet stink Subject(s): Dadaism WAR, by JOAQUIN EDWARDS BELLO Poem Source First Line: The kaiser was no longer to make love. This was the sole Last Line: The rate of exchange is dropping; but that doesn't bother me, %since I never change a bit Subject(s): Dadaism WATER TORTURE, by MAX ERNST Poem Source First Line: Now the fist is clenched Last Line: That the warm fish egg %suddenly falls into monotony Subject(s): Dadaism WAVE, by TRISTAN TZARA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Through fire wind hail of bullets Last Line: All around his cold eye %the invisible tide of towns and fields %the unanimous steel of their terrib Alternate Author Name(s): Rosenstock, Sami; Rosenfeld, S. Subject(s): Dadaism WAY, by TRISTAN TZARA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What is this road that separates us Last Line: And the end of the road is a flower which walks with you Alternate Author Name(s): Rosenstock, Sami; Rosenfeld, S. Subject(s): Dadaism WE HARDLY, by RICHARD HUELSENBECK Poem Source First Line: We hardly had gotten the man's pants down Last Line: All fading, and the song of the stars no longer was heard Subject(s): Dadaism WHEELS, by GUILLERMO DE TORRE Poem Source First Line: Colors undulation of laughter Last Line: I salute you %international whistling Subject(s): Dadaism WISE DANCE TWO, by TRISTAN TZARA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Growth of a fog of unforeseen propellers Last Line: The vial tied to one's neck %suddenly the trains fall silent Alternate Author Name(s): Rosenstock, Sami; Rosenfeld, S. Subject(s): Dadaism WITH CLASPED HANDS, by PHILIPPE SOUPAULT Poem Source First Line: In the sky there's the smoke of ocean liners Last Line: Beside a candle %beside a sleeping dog Subject(s): Dadaism WOMAN AND BIRD, by ANDRE BRETON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cat dreams and purrs in the dusky lute shop. He studies the Last Line: Vowels linked to the boundless magnolia of the night Subject(s): Dadaism WOOD-GNAWERS, by CELINE ARNAULD Poem Source First Line: Close by the anguish Last Line: Me I only know how to curse %and ramble on against hypotheses Subject(s): Dadaism X-IMAGES, by THEO VAN DOESBURG Poem Source First Line: I am penetrated by the room through which the streetcar glides Last Line: Space %that's me Subject(s): Dadaism X-IMAGES (1920), by THEO VAN DOESBURG Poem Source First Line: Hey hey hey Last Line: Pink and gray and deep wine-red %I find splinters of the cosmos in my tea Subject(s): Dadaism XIII, by TRISTAN TZARA Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Dada is a virgin microbe Last Line: Long live dada. Dada is not a literary school shouts tristan tzara. Alternate Author Name(s): Rosenstock, Sami; Rosenfeld, S. Subject(s): Dadaism YELLOW COLD, by TRISTAN TZARA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We're going clouding with the eskimos Alternate Author Name(s): Rosenstock, Sami; Rosenfeld, S. Subject(s): Dadaism; Science Fiction YOU OR ME, by PHILIPPE SOUPAULT Poem Source First Line: The man who watches trains go by Last Line: The man behind the gun %the man without heart or head Subject(s): Dadaism YOU WHO SLEEP, by PHILIPPE SOUPAULT Poem Source First Line: In the west you're still asleep Last Line: And you who suffer more %each day %who no longer hope %but are still watching Subject(s): Dadaism; World War Ii ZURICH CHRONICLE FEBRUARY 1916, by TRISTAN TZARA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the most obscure of streets in the shadow of architectural ribs Last Line: Fattest woman in the world: 'under the bridges of paris' Alternate Author Name(s): Rosenstock, Sami; Rosenfeld, S. Subject(s): Dadaism |
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