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A translation of 'Yankeeland' by Pablo de Rokha
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Edison (The Practical Life)
i
"The customary, the concrete, the brilliant vulgarity the methodical and mechanical reason, the",
Stuart Cooke
(translator),
2012
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Fifty-One Contemporary Poets from Australia : Part 4 -
Roosevelt
i
"Bilious like an animal and big, big, bigger than man, the sum of beast and God in just one, just one",
Stuart Cooke
(translator),
2012
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Fifty-One Contemporary Poets from Australia : Part 4 -
Woodrow Wilson
i
"Situated in the stupendous, stupendous mercantile rostrum of Washington, prevailing over the vague",
Stuart Cooke
(translator),
2012
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Fifty-One Contemporary Poets from Australia : Part 4 -
Chicago
i
"The stupid, monotonous, rheumatic fumes, the horizontal, industrial fumes, the horizontal fumes",
Stuart Cooke
(translator),
2012
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Fifty-One Contemporary Poets from Australia : Part 4 -
Walt Whitman
i
"Like a god who builds poems into mental slaps, Walt Whitman is seated, is seated in Yankeeland",
Stuart Cooke
(translator),
2012
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Fifty-One Contemporary Poets from Australia : Part 4 -
Pierpont Morgan
i
"P.M. looks like a sinister safe urinating in PUBLIC VIEW; he lost his head, lost his head in the",
Stuart Cooke
(translator),
2012
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Fifty-One Contemporary Poets from Australia : Part 4 -
Andrew Carnegie
i
"Well-bound books are excellent ornaments, excellent ornaments, excellent ornaments and",
Stuart Cooke
(translator),
2012
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Fifty-One Contemporary Poets from Australia : Part 4 -
Charles Chaplin
i
"The boys and girls applaud the simple, elemental and macabre attitude, sad and broken, sad and",
Stuart Cooke
(translator),
2012
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Fifty-One Contemporary Poets from Australia : Part 4 -
Pearl White
i
"A little bag, a little bag of artificial sweets is Pearl White; or better yet, an enormous, horny rose",
Stuart Cooke
(translator),
2012
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Fifty-One Contemporary Poets from Australia : Part 4 -
William James
i
"Philosophical wisdom, judgement, erudition, erudition, equanimity, virility, dignity and a beastly,",
Stuart Cooke
(translator),
2012
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Fifty-One Contemporary Poets from Australia : Part 4 -
Jack Dempsey
i
"Animal, animal¸ too much animal, the colossal Jack Dempsey the colossus held up by diplomatic",
Stuart Cooke
(translator),
2012
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Fifty-One Contemporary Poets from Australia : Part 4 -
Coney Island
i
"Circus moons and comedic oceans, theatrical suns and solemn lands, heavens and men as a joke",
Stuart Cooke
(translator),
2012
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Fifty-One Contemporary Poets from Australia : Part 4 -
New York
i
"… noise, noise and pale men, (… noise!..), homes and homes and homes and homes with 1, 2, 3, 4, 5",
Stuart Cooke
(translator),
2012
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Fifty-One Contemporary Poets from Australia : Part 4 -
The Yankee God
i
"Blonde and serious, clean-shaven, he says, Yes, oh yes!, yes to the cynical typists who dig like",
Stuart Cooke
(translator),
2012
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Fifty-One Contemporary Poets from Australia : Part 4 -
USA Company
i
"Capital = 1 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 DOLLARS …",
Stuart Cooke
(translator),
2012
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Fifty-One Contemporary Poets from Australia : Part 4
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