Re: Mina Loy 1922. 'Brancusi's Golden Bird'

> Chafetz Chayim benAvraham wrote:
> Mina Loy, 1922. 'Brancusi's Golden Bird'. The Dial
> 73(5):507-508
> © The Estate of Mina Loy, reprinted for
> educational purposes
> 
> 
> The toy
> become the aesthetic archetype
> 
> As if
> some patient peasant God
> had rubbed and rubbed
> the Alpha and Omega
> of Form
> into a lump of metal
> 
> A naked orientation
> unwinged and unplumed
> "the ultimate rhythm
> has lopped the extremities
> of crest and claw
> from
> the nucleus of flight
> 
> The absolute act
> of art
> conformed
> to continent sculpture
> "bare as the brow of Osiris"
> this breast of revelation
> 
> an incandescent curve
> licked by chromatic flames
> in labyrinths of reflections
> 
> 
> This gong
> of polished hyperaesthesia
> shrills with brass
> as the aggressive light
> strikes
> its significance
> 
> The immaculate
> conception
> of the inaudible bird
> occurs
> in gorgeous reticence . . .
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> STEPHAN PICKERING / חפץ ח"ם 'ן א'ר"ם
> Torah אליל" Yehu'di Apikores / Philologia Kabbalistica Speculativa Researcher
> לחיות -מן ר' ולש'ש'...לעולם לא עו"
> THE KABBALAH FRACTALS PROJECT



More excellent poetry from Mina Loy.


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