Joseph Julien Guglielmi

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in the

In the
day’s blessing

You
read that
the
old bastard
Ezra Pound
hadn’t a
clue about
Finnegans Wake

To monsters
inexhaustible
words

to parrots
dates

up to the separate waters
of the sea

in the

Dans le
bénissement du jour

On
lisait que
la
vieille ordure
Ezra Pound
comprenait
que dalle au
Finnegans Wake

Aux monstres
mots
intarrisables

aux
perroquets des dates

jusqu’aux eaux séparées
de la mer

Joseph Julien Guglielmi

(France, 1929 - 2017)

Born 1929 in Marseille of Italian parents, at the end of the war Guglielmi discovers jazz and meets other poets, Jean Malrieu, Gérald Neveu, Jean Tortel, Henri Deluy, Jean-Jacques Viton and Cayrol. He contributes to several magazines including Action poétique, Cahiers du Sud, Mantéia, and Le collet de Buffle.

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in the

In the
day’s blessing

You
read that
the
old bastard
Ezra Pound
hadn’t a
clue about
Finnegans Wake

To monsters
inexhaustible
words

to parrots
dates

up to the separate waters
of the sea

in the

In the
day’s blessing

You
read that
the
old bastard
Ezra Pound
hadn’t a
clue about
Finnegans Wake

To monsters
inexhaustible
words

to parrots
dates

up to the separate waters
of the sea