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"Brothers Under the Bridge" (Bruce Springsteen)
(photograph from Lee Friedlander, "New Mexico", 2001)
"Saigon, it was all gone
The same Coke machines
As the streets I grew on
Down in a mesquite canyon
We come walking along the ridge
Me and the brothers under the bridge
Campsite's an hour's walk from the nearest road to town
Up here there's too much brush and canyon
For the CHP choppers to touch down
Ain't lookin' for nothin', just wanna live
Me and the brothers under the bridge
Come the Santa Ana's, man, that dry brush'll light
Billy Devon got burned up in his own campfire one winter night
We buried his body in the white stone high up along the ridge
Me and the brothers under the bridge
Had enough of town and the street life
Over nothing you end up on the wrong end of someone's knife
Now I don't want no trouble
And I ain't got none to give
Me and the brothers under the bridge
I come home in '72
You were just a beautiul light
In your mama's dark eyes of blue
I stood down on the tarmac, I was just a kid
Me and the brothers under the bridge
Come Veterans' Day I sat in the stands in my dress blues
I held your mother's hand
When they passed with the red, white and blue"
Bruce Springsteen
(taken from the CD 18 Tracks, from 1999)
Jalâluddîn Rumi
(photo by Jean Ferro, Lewis: 1st Street and Temple, Downtown Los Angeles, s/d)
"Using the stone of the philosopher to convert copper into gold is indeed wonderful.
More wonderful still is the fact that, moment by moment, the philosopher's stone (man) is converted into copper - by his own heedlessness"1
Jalâluddîn Rumi (1207-1273)
1 poem taken from the CD of Martin Simpson & Wu Man, Music for the Motherless Child.
Vishwa Mohan Bhatt/Jerry Douglas (Bourbon & Rosewater)
(photo by Marco Barsanti)
"No wine glasses here, but wine is handed round.
No smoke, but burning.
Listen to the unstruck sounds.
and what sifts through that music".1
Jelaluddin Rumi (1207-1273)
1 RUMI, Jelaluddin taken from the CD Bourbon & Rosewater, from Vishwa Mohan Bhatt and Jerry Douglas.
One more time, Vishwa Mohan Bhatt recorded a masterpiece. After listening to his album Saltanah, I decided to listen to his Bourbon & Rosewater, recorded by him and bluegrass virtuoso Jerry Douglas. One more time, a beautiful piece of music by world music label Water Lily Acoustics. Their project of joining two or more musical traditions together is a wonderful idea and, in this case, the results are very good. Kavichandran Alexander, the producer, had always the dream of joining classical indian music with bluegrass. The result is this CD.
Jorge Vicente
Vishwa Mohan Bhatt here
Jerry Douglas here
A Gypsy Carol
(photo from Paul Banner, Opera 2, s/d)
"What are you seeking, you seven pretty maids,
all under the Leaves of Life?
We are searching for no leaves, Thomas,
but for a friend of thine"1
A gypsy carol
1 taken from the CD Kambara Music in Native Tongues, by Martin Simpson/David Hidalgo/Viji Krishnan/Puvalur Srinivasan
St. John of the Cross
(photo from Brian Arnold, #4 Letters, 2005)
"La bianca palomica
al arca con el ramo se ha tornado;
y ya la tortolica
al socio deseado
en las riberas verdes ha hallado"1
St. John of the Cross (1542-1591)
1 taken from the CD of Kambara Music in Native Tongues, from Martin Simpson/David Hidalgo/Viji Krishnan/Puvalur Srinivasan
Kavichandran Alexander
(photo taken from Patti Ambrogi, From the series - The Nature of Culture; Freeing Female Representation, Can She Take Her Tail Off, 1992)
"To the body's ark the heavenly dove descends
across the still ocean of Oneness
hearing the flower of spring.
The turtledove at long last the beloved meets
by the verdant river of life"
Kavichandran Alexander´
Kavichandran is a musician and producer of recording label Water Lily Acoustics
taken from the CD Kambara Music in Native Tongues, from Martin Simpson/David Hidalgo/Viji Krishnan/Puvalur Srinivasan
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Annie (GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE)
"Sur la côte du Texas
Entre Mobile et Galveston il y a
Un grand jardin tout plein de roses
Il contient aussi une villa
Qui est une grande rose
Une femme se promène souvent
Dans le jardin toute seule
Et quand je passe sur la route bordée de tilleuls
Nous nous regardons
Comme cette femme est mennonite
Ses rosiers et ses vêtements n'ont pas de boutons
Il en manque deux à mon veston
La dame et moi suivons presque le même rite"
GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE
(in http://www.toutelapoesie.com/poemes/apollinaire
Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918), poeta francês, nasceu em Roma em 1880. Era filho natural de uma dama da nobreza polaca e de um militar italiano. Passou a sua infância entre Roma, Monaco, Nice, Cannes e Lyon, tendo-se estabelecido definitivamente em Paris, aos 22 anos de idade. Fundou diversas revistas, participou activamente nas polémicas artísticas do seu tempo, tendo inclusivamente apoiado os movimentos vanguardistas emergentes: o cubismo de Pablo Picasso e Georges Bracque, a escola futurista de Marinetti, etc. Participou na 1ª Guerra Mundial, tendo ficado ferido.
Mas Apollinaire é mais conhecido pela sua poesia. Nos seus primeiros poemas, já se evidenciavam os temas principais da sua obra: a morte, o exílio, os sentimentos de separação. Em 1913, publica Alcools, texto marcadamente vanguardista. Influenciado pelo cubismo, Apollinaire aplica à sua escrita elementos marcadamente visuais. Muitos dos seus poemas não têm pontuação, alguns outros são uma pérola da chamada poesia visual. Estou a referir-me, por exemplo, aos famosos Caligrames. Os seus poemas fizeram com que Apollinaire fosse considerado um precursor do surrealismo. Morreu de gripe aos 38 anos de idade, em 1918. (ver http://www.vidaslusofonas.pt/guillaume_apollinaire.htm)
Obras em Vida
Le Festin d'Esope (1903) - revista,
Les jeunes (1905),
Henri Matisse (1907),
L'Enchanteur Pourrissant (1909),
Le Théâtre Italien (1910),
L'Hérésiarque et Cie (1910),
Julie Philosophie, ou le Bon Patriote (1910),
Oeuvre Libertine des Poètes du XIXe Siècle (1910),
Les Onze Mille Verges (1911),
Le Bestiaireou Cortège d'Orphée (1911),
Pages d'Histoire: Chroniques des Grands Siècles de la France (1912),
Méditations Esthétiques: [les peintres cubistes] Secondes Épreuves (1912),
L'Oeuvre Badine de l'Abbé de Grécourt (1912),
L'Enfer de la Bibliothèque Nationale: icono-bio-bibliographie descriptive, critique et raisonnée, complète à ce jour de tous les ouvrages composant cette célèbre collection (1913),
Le voyageur; Le pont Mirabeau; Marie (1913),
Alcools: 1ères épreuves (1913),
Alcools: poèmes 1898-1913 (1913),
L'antitradition futuriste, manifeste-synthèse (1913),
"Les fenêtres" in Guillaume Apollinaire, R. Delaunay (1913),
La Rome des Borgia (1914),
Les trois Don Juan (1914),
La Fin de Babylone (1914),
La Rome des Borgia. Le Pape Alexandre VI entre sa maîtresse et ses deux fils. César et Lucrèce. La fiancée de Jésus-Christ. Orgies cardinalices. Poison et inceste. Les bas-fonds de la Rome des Borgia (1914),
Case d'armons (1915),
Le Poète Assassiné (1916),
Pablo Picasso (1917),
Une Tendance de la Poésie Contemporaine (1917),
Vintere Impedere Amori: Poèmes et dessins (1917),
Oeuvre du soldat dans la tranchée. Une tendance de la poésie contemporaine (1917),
Le Flâneur des deux rives (1918),
Calligrames: Poèmes de la paix et de la guerre: 1913-1916 (1918),
Les mamelles de Tiresias: drame surréaliste en 2 actes et un prologue (1918),
[Raspoutine] Chapitre 1: Les visiteuses aristocratiques (1918).
Obras em Português
Mais Novembro do que Setembro (2001) Relógio d'Água
As onze mil vergas (1999) Europa-América,
As proezas amorosas de um jovem Don Juan (1992) Círculo de Leitores,
O heresiarca e C (1990) Vega
O rei lua (1989) Vega
O século das nuvens: antologia poética (1989) Hiena
O poeta Assassinado (1983) Estampa
O fim da Babilónia (1975) Portugal Press
A mulher sentada (1974) Estampa
Tirésias (1962) Contraponto
Fonte: www.bn.pt
No Brasil
Caligramas (1987) Cátedra
O Bestiário ou cortejo de Orfeu (1997) Iluminuras
Pintores cubistas (1997) L&PM Editores
Contos breves (1998) L&PM Editores
ver: www.livrariacultura.com.br
