The Elephant infested nests, continues to grow to new land, all equipped with digital systems. I hunt with rifle bat. I dig his grave. Rejected, it changes direction and follows the path of a dangerous world, engulfing more than the imagination, a country of cities, ruins, lakes, ditches, and wonders battlefields fertilized by the decay of cones melon striped band Pearl . This area smoking, one of these crevices of artillery, built a round window, a door underwater, my right eye, twisted by the landscape ...
Happiness immerse themselves in a book that reads a book is true to it: the energy of movement - some thing unwinds in these pages from one end to another like a wire with an invention, a felicity of expression, a freshness in a word indicating the intention to take the reader, wherever he is, in the snares of writing, for conduct which he would never have thought to go. And it - the player, so - delighted with the adventure, enchanted, winnowed, has only one word in catching his breath: thank you ...
Indeed, the invention is funny and we often think of Jarry, in Vian, to Béalu. The Elephant (always in uppercase E) out of nothing between Montreal and Pittsburgh, which arises from a impromptu moleskins coffee or ice of Hudson Bay, is it nature or even the imagination, reality or fantasy, a demon or a god "Contemporary Zeus himself? Throughout the four "acts" - each with six "scenes" - it seems trickery or charge, just trying to fight. And man, all alone in front of these enormous and fearsome mood, no longer has the choice to come to the end. Hence chases worthy of Roussel: "Why I never hunted big tan in Southern Africa" ... and preferred to write a book!
Earth blows. He charged at the rate of skunk and impale Now shots of trees uprooted, their long tusks fleshing machines. He hits hard, I bleed flow pipe drilled, shook the walls that I'm indestructible. Then, in the dragonflies of the moment, he grabs me, around me by the trunk, get up, break me, shoots me, tramples and crushes me into skin darbuka, in its seven legs. I'm confused. I mow until finally, the iris in shadow, I avoid the dissector by rolling on the side.We have seen shadows move as Rimbaud and Lautreamont (more than surreal, duly referred to) in these lines it should recommend to the jaded poem. Poetry is first joy of reading: this Elephant - a most welcome first book - attests.
Jean-Marie Perret.
- The Elephant, by David Jasmin Gate, The Hexagon, Quebec, October 2008 .