SUBTLE BODY by MALDOROR

'There are people so wretched, they don’t even / have a body'
- Cesar Vallejo, 'Stumble Between Two Stars' (translated by Clayton Eshleman)

'The body is a source. Nothing more. / There is a time for it. There is a certainty / About the way it seeks its own dissolution.'
- Eavan Boland, 'Anne Liffey'

'You will see my present body / burst into fragments / and remake itself / under ten thousand notorious aspects / a new body / where you will / never forget me.'
- Antonin Artaud, 'The Theatre of Cruelty' (translated by Victor Corti)