"A"19

"K-19

An other

song-you

want another

encore I

hear back-

stage the

stagehand's late

the stage's

moon his

sufferance of

lights footcandles

mind pines

ata

door snow

flakes drift

down up

thru and

past turn

over under

on froth

pine needles

frost tomorrow's

sun better

than any

tune bowed

fingered drawn

lights dimmed

bowed heart

another

böwed-fame

crowds an

other valentine.

No ill-luck

if bonding

tohu bohu

horsehair mends

azure mane

flogs cold

races rut

shards the

perverse desolate

with pride

who curse

misfortune Place

it futile range

less discreet

than her

lips dawned

on china

benign day's

first kiss

the lips

not drinking

yet where

to tarry

is breath:

arm even

the martyr's assay

will may

may be

soul owned

by time

illumine itself

primordial elect

penchant salute

horsehair silk

play to

the balm

of time

an anti-matter

of its sigh

bird one

hears once

of all

alive comber

naked jubilation

its story

cinder sparing

the fire

fierce shying

idleness offense:

purchase woman

child broth

quarryman cut out

for his

marriage cobbler

who'd recreate

shoes (feet

if you

will) revive

everyday's amities

his live

eye separate

him from

his togs

so he

walk naked god

song of

his wood

the truth

ofa

face of

it hymn

work patience

atlas herb

science ritual

while insensible

authority trouble

to humiliate

ore and motility

their impalpable

conscionable double

when no

eye'll hallucinate

air with

divisions sage

sprig the

litigious who

tease but

till the

blossom grow

too large

for their reasons

fierce shyness

no symbol

literally Don

Quixote with

shoe trees

come home:

(Two lives

unknown to

each other

profess with

and without

salon a

future apart the

like hazard

sang wife

sang child)

Asked him

4-year old

'why the

violin?' responded

"Individually I

love it"

Finally-"you

don't understand

you're like

a sleeping frog."

PAGANINI PRIZE

. . Rules . . Violinists

of any

nationality, which

have not

overcome the

age of

35... can

compete . . required

a certificate

of birth

or the

like . . with eventual

papers relating

to musical

studies . . ad

every other

document . . the

competitor esteems

to produce ..

personal identification

when attending . .

FIRST TEST

Porpora (Carisch)

Bach Ciaconna

Paganini Capriccio n. 23

SECOND TEST

Mozart . . Paganini

two "Capricci"

(excluded the

one n.

23) Prokofieff

Scherzo THIRD

Concerto or

important composition

for violin

from Beethoven

up to

the modern Composers

(The Sonatas

for violin

and piano

are excluded)

PAGANINI Concerto

in D

Major first

tempo, with

cadence as

chosen by

the competitors

. . with orchestra

. . The competition will

take place

in Geneo

the selection

. . made privately

Jury The

Jury with

the Tecnical

Manager of

the Competition

as Chairman

will be

composed by

foreign and Italian

music-masters, whose

names will

be made

known, at

least three

months before

the expiration

termes fixed

for the

production of

applications . . the

choice of

the six (max)

competitors admitted

to the

final test

and the

final classification

based on

the whole

tests performance

will be

stated by

the Jury

whose judgement

will be inappelable

and issued

by majority

of manifest

votes. Considering

that the

1.st prize

is indivisible

the Jury

will be

at liberty

in case

classification should

be exceptionally difficult

to request

all or

part of

the finalists

to perform

other compositions

. . candidates having

successfully passed

selection will

be offered

a sejourn

at hotels

or boarding houses

. for under

age competitors

signature of

father or

mother or

somebody their

substitute is

wanted . . must

reach Segretary's

office. The

winner will

play the

Paganini's violin at

Palazzo Tursi

on October

12 in

the evening

on occasion

of the

conclusive Ceremonies

of Columbus'

celebration and

will be

invited to

perform a

concerto during the

symphonic season

at the

Teatro Comunale

dell' Opera.

1.st PRIZE

Lit. 2.000.000

4.th 200.000

love's labour's lost

we (?) four

indeed confronted

four / In

Russian habit

a bullish violin

market with

bearish virtuosi

tuning nearly

anachronous the

public guts:

spit in

the hole,

man, and

tune again

considering 4.th

a bit

or

of luck

called forth the

honor of

1.st Prize

warm by

4's Mozart

an honest

Russian wish

that the

award had

gone the

other way

and not

the ways

of a concours

too the

Italian Chairman

uncomposed segretly

let 4.th

play the

Paganini's violin

two mornings

before official

Columbus night

a heavy

fiddle almost

the size

of a viola

good only

for pouncing

Paganini, scratchy

like stoked

cinders for

any Bach:

The roof

had rained

on Paganini

painted long

night before

wet the

serious lips smeared

smiled down

perhaps with

Whitman on

Jenny Lind

for "all

her blandishments

never touched

my heart

.. dexterity . . all

very pretty

. leaps . . double

somersaults" their

time gone by

preempted by

the symphony's

summer festivals

week ends

displacing the

year round

tanglewoods and

small town

thugs by

inundations by

thousands music's

fools good

for their money

TV Day

Nippon a

thousand under

teens scratching

"Rondeau" together

(passing a

Funeral Parlor

'where people

are born

in this

town') all

contests decided

before the outcome

by the

Pythagoreans' Four

justice the

first perfect

square product

of equals

holy holy

tetraktys root

and source

generate gods

and men

(bless us)

divine number begins

with one

until it

comes to

Four then

it begets

can: must

placed: lifts

'See what

you thought

Four really

tena

central fire

Triangle of Four

boundless breath

dying undying

the worded

reasons: The

Golden Words

and you

shall know

nature is

one and

neither hope

beyond hope

nor fail

of any truth.'

The wistaria "s

blessing: why

you should

have patience

ranging random

numbers (my

luck is

13) and

ifl

voice thru

Demetrius 'Egypt

. . singing harmonies

of seven vowels

hymning gods'

(before phoneme)

". „sequence men

listened to

. . voices replacing

flute and

lyre diphthong

clashing diphthong

. . variety . . elevation

.. rough . . smooth

hoiain not

only different

letters different breathings

concurrence of

like vowels

a bit

of song

trills song

piled (so

to say)

on songs . ."

reminding me

'Die Elenden

sollen essen'

Bach's first

music (Leipzig Cantorate)

Phoenix Paganinis

spidery legs

flying two

broken strings

LOUIS ZUKOFSEY

hanging all

on one

string, patience

fire your

father's slaked

burning I

had no

patience with

another who forecast

me hungry

then as

he had

been drudging

professing to

make pure

the speech

ofa

scrawling race

Sun no

hay State

exchanges' rolling

moss mention distinguée

son with

concert shoes

practical enough

poetic justice

that you

bring me

Le Livre

de Mallarmé

professor by

subsistence hazard

home where

else had

he to venture

shy and

or fierce

both our

chances staked

from the

same root

what notes

preyed playing

on us

a stretto

two dollar

orange tree

our living room

our lives

room Pegasus

from Medusa

tho his

century's dice

resigned to

her forecasting

mine-engulfed

making all

of the

universe purely

of speech

Id rather not

preempt my

horse from

actual pavement

or green

that's city

that's country

the rest

black or

white day

ofa

last rare

mind cornered

by political beasts

But how

beautifully a

last mind

dies: 'What book?

what book?

entire enough

perfect enough

to take

the place

ofall

the books

and of

the world itself

. . Piece or

that play

with concert

dialog poem

. . symphony for

scene . . bottom

de lOE-

towards (?) '(vers)

published one

time for

all... under

one's HAT

all rendered virginal'

Foregone sublimations

of Eureka

'each fractioning

fragment the

ensemble's rhythm'

foreseeing Wherever

we put

our hats

is our

home: those

who do

not understand

may hurt and

those who

understand may

hurt as

Blaise Pascal's

candle pleased

'no one

is offended

at not

seeing everything'

and the

Leonov first

to float

in space knows

he would

not meet

anyone there:

"The loan

from above

in favor

of all

the world

restored to

the people'

(when had

all?) Grape

arbor of little

Doric columns

sowing of

flourishes, arabesque

each conceivably

offend: 'Man

does not

write with

light on

black crystal

night . . in

black ink's

audacity . . married

to his night.'

Is the

man ink

and does

his 'white

paper support'

eyes the

fine day

he'll look

away from

black letters

to regret

sun (window)

is not theirs

If the

'crowd buy'

of the

inkwell what

'proof' one

ear's 'reciprocal'?

Pascal: paschal

'The last

thing settled

writing a

book . . what

one should

put in first"

And any

play performed

the 2oth

anniversary of

Hiroshima's "A"

may as

well as

not have

retched the

pinnacle, pitiful

the world's

lonely who

would love all

How generously

Mallarmé's late

thought minds

'the book

however seeming

never begins

or ends

. . the crowd

other than

by silence

takes part

exults as

choir . . voices . . vaults'

proposing 'the

State raise

a trifling

tax on

works in

the public

domain to

feed young

artists, the

classics' ideal

legatees (justice)

the only

imminent blue bloods'

Son and

young friends

for what

my work

is worth

let the

State pick

up his

suggestion for

youl

do not

need the

trifle nor'd live

it all

over again

for the

fee my

test love

of the

drudgery involved

her quilt

and this

maybe not

too late

tribute to

once Stéphane Mallarmé

whose Book

prophecy say

his branch

brings to

our family.

The physician

Sextus Empiricus

anxious to

divorce metaphysics

from medicine

said that

'the art

of letters by

comprehension cures

a most

inactive disease

. . forgetfulness . . and

therefore has

its use

which the

conceited needlessly

inquisitive enfeeble'

Against the

Professors showed

'the subject

taught does not

exist, nor

the teacher

nor the

learner nor

the method

. . the öbverse

perceptible by

all alike

. . speech by

agreement plain

to those

who apprehend

its objects . . reviving

what is

known' not

for the

footling question

But for

the eye

that appears

larger seeing

nine tenths

of ills

from stubborn

intelligence Unknown

friends are few

no friends

unless intimately

accessible Intellect

resigned to

less is

susceptible at

least to

the range

of two

sides of

a coin

Some few

see its edge

so increscent

to possibilities

flipping a

coin may

decide, the

sufferance of

intellect is

the body's

plight for

at least

two true

Sextus need

not offend Pythagoras

calling his

'wrong moment

foolish for

sobering frenzied

youths with

a righteous

spondean' (instead

of quitting

their dive)

Aseptic doctor

practice the

cure for

forgetfulness sometimes no

way out

Either way

too easy

for tutor

to be

his own

tooter Lunik's

hunch moon

surface desolate

porous rock:

Dogs permitted

only in

Elevator No. 3

Alighieri threading

a needle

a millenium

after Gai's

spindle: the

astronauts' violent

spinning docking

"God? we

were busy"

(West of

Vatican Belvedere

Apollo "By

God a Mohawk")

Chatillon 'fevered

with ivy

poison . . . solaced

with tobacco

and Shakespeare'

burn to

ascend. On

the day

when the

elephant of

the map

India draw

the yellow pincers

of China

or our

air cavalry

go into

the sea

Japan gravel

temple gates

broken lopped

branches stumped

trunks of

trees tapestries

hang reverse

sides the new

time of

forgetting pier

and lintel

for advantage

of being

slid thru

a door

lying down

all appointments

of elimination

on one

no standing

dire past to

sit down:

the quicker

to get

with computers

to Invisible

Media from

the old

arts' fetters

(the aged

Cardinal wishes

his fish

peddler's voice

not to disturb

Mozart's Requiem

sung for

the late

President, enlightened

His Holiness

that His

medical advice

is not

privileged with

Infallibility or

it would

be fatal

for ulcers

while the

Viennese director

of opera

still thinks

Sacco/Vanzetti

are a

pair of

lovers the

old singer

a bit

ofa

schlemiel sips

the young's gift

'nectar of

heather-honey gathering

of herbs

under the

full moon

..a formula

fiercely battled

over guarded

by Eire's

ancient warriors'

drop of

Trish Mist

with its red

ribboned tag

of blarney

reading it

drowses knows

like the

diver could

it walk

under water

it would

have walked

here from

Ireland splayfoot

snow on pineneedles

night snow

sounds rain

thru trees

morning snow

ploughs will

not hurry

a path

A legacy

windfall of

a rush

of notes

falling together

album celestial valentine

Mallarmé (not

the hat)

the face

a covert

look might

make one

shy of

song From

thence sorrow

be ever

rad nine

so soon twenty

III