Charles Tomlinson

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Octavio Paz sobre Tomlinson em On Poets and Others.

A Rose for Janet

I know
this rose is only
an ink-and-paper rose
but see how it grows and goes
on growing
beneath your eyes:
a rose in flower
has had (almost) its vegetable hour
whilst my
rose of spaces and typography
can reappear at will
(your will)
whenever you repeat
this ceremony of the eye
from the beginning
and thus
learn how
to resurrect a rose
that’s instantaneous
perennial
and perfect now
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daqui.

entrevista para a Paris Review.
("How did it happen, my being drawn to America? All bits and pieces, to begin with. A monochrome reproduction of a Georgia O'Keeffe in a book that was a twenty-first birthday present.

(...)
Apart from literary efforts, I spent much time on seeing films and writing film scripts early in my career. Richard Swigg, in his remarkable book Charles Tomlinson and the Objective Tradition has shown in some detail the way both images from and the actual sound track of Citizen Kane have percolated into the poem “Assassin,” for example. I even tried to get a job in films. The concentration on all that visual material surely brought something to bear on the shape of the poems themselves—a certain concision, the effect of the single shot.")