Selected Poems and Related Prose

Contents Preface vii Luce Marinetti Translating Marinetti xv Elizabeth R. Napier and Barbara R. Studholme The Old Sailors (1898) 1 The Conquest of the Stars (1902) 5 I. The Oracle-Song of the Waves 7 II. The Reservoirs of Death 10 V. The Sovereign Sea 13 XII. The Golden Scout 15 XIX. The Kiss of a Dying Star 17 Destruction (1904) 19 I. Invocation to the Almighty Sea to Deliver Me from the Ideal 21 III. The Babels of Dreams 23 The Sensual City (1908) 25 The Sensual City I. The Mad Traveler 27 V. My Heart Sang... 29 VI. The Sacred Lizards 31 The Death of the Fortresses I. The Coy Hulls 32 II. Useless Wisdom 34 III. The Dawn's Victory 36 Dithyrambs To My Pegasus 38 The Pope's Monoplane (1912) 41 1. Flying Over the Heart of Italy 43 2. The Volcano's Decrees 48 Zang Tooomb Toomb (1912-1913; published in Italian 1914) 55 Correction of Proofs Desires 57 Synchronic Chart of sounds odors colors images smells hopes desires energies longings drawn up by the aviator Y. M. 61 Hadirlïk Turkish Headquarters 62 Bridge 67 Trainload of Sick Soldiers 72 Bombardment 75 Technical Manifesto of Futurist Literature 77 Battle Weight + Smell 81 Futurist Words in Freedom (1919) 83 Words in Freedom [Introduction] 85 Futurist Sensibility and Wireless Imagination 87 Words in Freedom 87 Wireless Imagination 87 Onomatopoeia and Mathematical Symbols 88 Typographic Revolution and Free Expressive Orthography 89 Typographic Revolution 89 Free Expressive Orthography 89 Geometric and Mechanical Splendor 90 Simultaneity—Synoptic Tables of Lyrical Values 93 Numerical Sensibility 94 Examples of Words in Freedom 95 Letter from a pretty woman to a passé1st gentleman 97 Dunes 99 9-storied battle of Mount Altissimo 117 After the Marne, Joffre toured the front by car 119 At night, lying in bed, She rereads the letter from her gunner at the front 121 A tumultuous assembly (Numerical sensibility) 123 After Words in Freedom (ca. 1924-1928) 125 [After words in freedom] 127 The right finds the pearl [manuscript 1] 129 The right finds the pearl [manuscript 2] 131 Poems to Beny (1920-1938; published 1971) 133 [The island casts the jetty out to sea...] 135 Two canoes at Capri 138 Insufferable pride of the Lavaredos 140 [Should I choose these words...] 141 Notes on the Poems 143 "The Most Enduring and Most Honored Name": Marinetti as Poet 149 Paolo Valesio Original Texts of the Poems 167