[lit-ideas] Re: "lay the foundation for gentleness"

  • From: Ursula Stange <Ursula@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 11:37:22 -0500

jacques prevert?
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080127101749AAFkUE5
There seem to be other translations as well....

Mike Geary wrote:

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I've been trying for some time now to remember the poet (and poem) of a poem that begins:
"Terrible
the sound of a hard-boiled egg
cracked on a zinc counter
to the ears of a starving man -- "

if that rings a bell for anyone, help! I think it's a translation from some European poet -- all is mazy-hazy.

Mike Geary
Memphis



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