All These Roads: The Poetry of Louis Dudek

Hellcats in Heaven (Report on the book Cerberus)

Hellcats in Heaven (Report on the book Cerberus) François Villon read one half, Ended with a bitter laugh: “May you be hanged for this,” He said.“It’s awful stuff!” Next to read was William Blake, Said in a fit of coughing shakes: “Will you build Jerusalem With the boards of a jakes?” Read it then, Arthur Rimbaud, Read it shuddering as though He had tasted something foul; Then bawled “Merde—ça pue!” Read it Maître Rabelais, Laughed, but fell a-cursing too: “’Tis true I said faictz ce que veut — But how could I know what you would do?” The Poetry of Louis Dudek / 15 ...