jean Cocteau poems

[ifiaskaquestion]

I can't seem to find more than one online, could anyone help me out ? And/or opinions on his work would also be interesting for me. I'd like to know what his poetry is like.

[Logos]

From Cocteau's Diary, Past Tense Vol II--
May 30, 1953--
Beauty makes us lose our head. Poetry is born of this decapitation.

I love his poetry, he writes daydreams and nightmares. He first and foremost considered himself a poet but I highly recommend his films as well (http://www.netcomuk.co.uk/~lenin/jean_cocteau_orp.html).

If you don't read French (where you will 'get' his poetry much better) you might have a hard time finding a lot of his works translated to English online, but this site has some under "texts" (http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=http://leonicat.club.fr/cocteau/jcpoeme37.html&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=1&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3D%2522Clair%2BObscur%2522%2BCocteau%26 num%3D50%26hl%3Den%26newwindow%3D1%26safe%3Doff%26 sa%3DG) and his "L'Ange Heurtebise" (http://www.aprweb.org/issues/jan04/cocteau.html) can be found here :)

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[ifiaskaquestion]

Thankyou for the information, if only all forums and their moderators were so kind. I did give the thought that it maybe difficult to find English translations of his work.


Thankyou again x

[uranderson]

I remember watching "Orpheus" several years ago and being stunned by the quality of the poetry that comes out of the radio at several points in the film.

I still remember that as some of the most evocative surrealist poetry I've ever heard.