A "The Pocket Poets Series" da City Lights Books de São Francisco tem edições ótimas de poetas idem. Este poema é de Frank O'Hara, nova-iorquino, chamado de "poeta pintor", e foi retirado do volume 19 da coleção. A menção ao Brasil é insondável...
Hotel Particulier
How exciting it is
not to be at Port Lligat
or learning Portuguese in Bilbao so you can go to Brazil.
Erik Satie made a great mistake learning Latin
The Brise Marine wasn't written in Sanskrit, baby
I had a teacher one whole summer who never told me
anything and it was wonderful
and then there is the Bibliotéque Nationale, cuspidors, glasses, anxiety
you don't get crabs that way,
and what you don't know will hurt somebody else
how clear the air is, how low the moon, how flat the sun, et cetera
just so you don't coin a phrase that changes can be "rung" on
like the neiges d'antan
and that sort of thing (oops!) , (roll me over)!
ist his the hostel where the lazy and fun-loving
start up the mountain?
(1960)
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Comente o que acha que deve, mas use termos gentis, mesmo que desaforados...