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Face Before Against: Main


Excerpt from Face Before Against

by Isabelle Garron
Translated from the French by Sarah Riggs

Untitled, 1991
ink and charcoal on blue paper
burnt, 21.5 x 27.9 cm

              Louis BOURGEOIS




umber, earth umber
. verse from the book burnt
black

-- ink already
of prehistory


/

while on their backgrounds
. the ancient master
speak

-- before my eyes
tongues made of roots


/

sea cliff
. low heath

parasol pine
black poplar

dog-rosebush
. lady's slipper


/

. head posed face
before against

. a woman spread
-- her disaster apprentice

. the far-off scales
of a sextet


/

. of your hand recognized
the   blurred  gesture
disfiguring the simple

. from the red covering
blood to  your  effigy
in front of which

                             no poem
                             signifies


/

no poem
. any longer / signifies
-- today but

. this somber  varnish
between the thing and us
. face  / to infinity

                             ... . also
                             only there] . ...

 


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