Cavalcanty Harpie poetry is her weapon –

poetry is her weapon – "these migrant poems from all languages

‘De ruimte van het volledig leven’ en ‘In deze tijd heeft wat men altijd noemde / Schoonheid schoonheid haar gezicht verbrand’

John Ashbery's claim that Frank O'Hara 1971 collected poems was "the founding of a new tradition" should be made for both Desnos's poem and Warsh's translation

circling and never landing

undiscovered until the 1940s and here translated for the first time into English

Cavalcanty Harpie poetry is her weapon –Peter Hughes The thirteenth century Tuscan poet Guido Cavalcanti helped to create a new poetry that belonged to the city rather than the court, and through his use of Tuscan vernacular gave an extraordinary intensity and craft to his explorations of the social and psychological dimensions of love. Peter Hughes has taken Cavalcantis groundbreaking poems and used them as springboards for his own creative versions. Following in the footsteps of Dante