ISBN 1-879585-01-4 FLORENTIN SMARANDACHE NONPOEMS Phoenix * Chicago © XIQUAN Publishing House 1990AMERICAN MANIFESTO I left the communist totalitarism and emigrated to the United States for the freedom: Therefore, don’t force any literary rules on me! Or, if you do, I’11 certainly encroach upon them. I’m not a poet, that’s why I write poetry. I’m an anti-poet or non-poet. I thus came to America to re-build the Statue of Liberty of the Verse, delivered from the tyranny of the classic and its dogma. I allowed any boldness: -anti-literature and its literature -flexible forms fixed, or the live face of the death! «style of the non-style «poems without verse (because poems don’t mean words) - dumb poems with loud voice .»poems without poems (because the notion of "poem" doesn’t match any definition found in dictionaries or encyclopedias) -poems which exist by their absence .after-war literature: pages and pages bombed by filthiness, triteness, and non- poeticality « -paralinguistic verse (only!): graphics, lyrical portraits, drawings, drafts... -non-words and non-sentence poems .very upset free verse and trivial hermetic verse -intelligible unintelligible language -unsolved and open problems of mathematics like very nice poems of the spirit-we must scientificize the art in this technical century. «impersonal texts personalized -electrical shock translation from the impossible into the possible, or transformation of the abnormal to the normal «pro Non-Art Art .make literature from everything, make literature from nothing! The poet is not a prince of ducks! The notion of "poetry" and its derivatives have become old-fashioned in this century, and people laugh at them in disregard. I’m ashamed to affirm that I create lyrical texts, I hide them. People neither read nor listen to lyrical texts anymore, but they will read this volume because it’s nothing to read! However, the Paradoxist Movement is neither nihilism, nor despairity. The book of non-poems is a protest against art’s marketing. Do you writers sell your feelings? Do you create only for money?? Only books about crimes, sex, horror are published. Where is the true Art? In begging. You may find in this book of uncollected poems everything you don’t need and don’t like: poems not to be read, not to be heard, not to be written at all! Enjoy them. Only after nuisance you really know what pleasure means. They provide a mirror of everybody's infinite soul. Art, generally speaking, is pushed up to its last possible frontiers toward non-art, and even more...Better a book of blank pages, than one which says nothing. A very abstract and symbolic language is further used, but very concrete at the same time: non- restrictive verse from any form or content. It takes advantage of cliché against itself. EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE, THEREFORE: THE IMPOSSIBLE ALSO! Hence don’t wonder about this anti-book! If you don’t understand it, that means you understand all. That is the goal of the manifesto. Because Art is not for the mind, but for feelings. Becayse Art is also for the mind. Try to interpret the uninterpretable! Your imagination may flourish as a cactus in a desert. But, The American Manifesto of THE PARADOXIST MOVEMENT is especially a revolt of the emigrant to the United States who doesn’t speak English, against the language-an anti-language book written in more than broken English (the American speach of Tomorrow?)... Florentin SmarandacheUPSET-POEMSOW pod Douorunrd vara HH Tee YY OHH OL UH YD PEOdK DiNODHODEDED Bava po 20 Ag GOHOOROSY Qivp H VGH LOW FOr H BOm ONE BDHDMM Of HRM MOHD MADIALOGUE OF DEAF PERSONS - Are you an American? - No, I am another. - Are you a tourist? - No, I am two ones, for I'm not alone but with me. - What o'clock is it? - It is seven o'clock hen. - Yes, it's seven o'clock at my sock.CHARACTER Billy isa Johnny Johnny isa George George is a Jack, namely George Jack Frost. Peter is a Michael son Michaelsonson Michaelsonsonson .'Kariktg "bili ‘in 'dgoni "iz ‘dz, aids nig ‘pi:ter ‘iz ‘maikl '3 "daoni 'e "dgardz oP) ‘daek, ‘neimli ‘dz oraz *d3 ek ‘a 'maikl ‘san ‘san'san ‘maikl ‘frost. ‘san'san'sanCaesar was not a Caesar but a Judas. Jimmy is a Tommy. 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She Si R_KOCHAIY OF (70 SVP haf Bae ae | os ; Oe ee Idea AnarchySelf-Portret PoemTwenty one Poems-Without-VerseBlank Verse 64Black VerseHaiku Poem 66Reductio ad Absurdium 67Tabula Rasa 68Null and Void Hymn 69Introspection 70Meditation 71(the reader can imagine anything) 72Transcendental Sense 713Universality 74Absolute 75Perfection 716Eternity 17Infinity 78Spirit ( Translated from sanskrit to English by the author ) 719Time ( Translated from Tocharian to English by the author ) 80Space ( Translated from Celtic to English by the author ) 81( Translated from English to English by the author 82838485Seven Poems-Without-Poems8788899092Contents American Manifesto: THE PARADOXIST MOVEMENT UPSET-POEMS Me MO mmadHaag Hwranad 3 DIALOGUE OF DEAF PERSONS CHARACTER 'Karikta { Caesar was not a Caesar ] Wise 4 i 6 i 8 0 9 Mwoe-aaiequ: 1 0 Graphic-Poems 0 -Four SUPER-POEMS a power. YJ chall 95 25 eng «on. POEMS in Pirissanorench ( Translated from English by the author ) RTFGIKMNB 29 cc EE a0 yokeu, Guhmw45uut 5 — 275 4794782468m25668 ————___________________ 3 WEORIJGPWI05-340989RT ——————_—______-_ 33 *E(*E_(&_()*E%_E 34 35 564789345678 90000000000000G00000000¢000000000000000000000000000000000-_ 36 n kn-1 2 AITISi XE EES IT;TET ETE ct AS-OTETSOMNADADGIADT OA GKG gc 39 Drawn-Poems Tale Wood —————_____—_—_- 41 Lyrical Landscape ————_—_________________ 42 Flower-Poem 43 Dream from Alaska 44 Obsession —____. 45 Boat of Noe —————————________________ 4, Cat’s Eyes al Mistress 48 Mechanical Singing Bird 4g Future Man iG Genius TwinkleElectrical Power Signal ————____________ 52 Angle oscht es Trawl 54 Connexions ———______________—__ 55 Poem-Drafis Thinking Spider Memory Road Emigrant Day eee eer eee ae 58 59 Digit Dictatorship 60 Idea Anarchy 61 Self-Portret Poem Twenty one Poems-Without-Verse Blank Verse 64 Black Ve se a 65 Haiku Poem Reductio ad Absurdium 67 A ————— Null and Void Hymn GG Introspection 70 Meditation (the reader can imagine anything) — 71 Transcendental Sense ———___________73 Absolute 75 Rerecion Eternity Tk 0 Spirit ——_______________79 6 0 9782 ———————————— ¢ 85 Seven Poems-Without-Poems First 87 Second ——________________——. gg Third ——W—_________§——____ 59 Fourth —__O F 90 Fifth Sixth Seventh —____»_ SBDear Reader & Non-Reader, You may send your opinion and oath to: Florentin Smarandache * P.O.Box 42561 Phoenix,Arizona 85080 USA 99100THE PARADOXIST MOVEMENT Ten years ago the Author set up the Paradox ist Movement in Romania together with a group of writers (Constantin M. Popa, Constantin pinca: Traian Nica). He published his first volume in this style: “Laws of internal composition. Poems with...problems!" (Romanian) {Morocco, 1982), afterwards a paradoxist manifesto in his volume "The Sense of the Non-Sense" (French) {Morocco, 1983 & 1984}, and a third volume: "Ante- rooms/Anti-poems/Strange-verse"(France, 1989}. He spread the paradoxism to other writers: from Morocco(Khalil Raiss), France (Claude LeRoy, Chantal Signoret, Annie Delpérier, Paul Courget, Chris Bernard, Jean-Michel Levénard), Turkey (Halil Gokhan), and he’s now trying to introduce this Paradoxist Movement to the United States, i.e. literature beyond the words!... art of the non-art... revolutionary form and content... anarchy and dictatorship of the words... lyrical avant-garde and experiments... Constantin M. Popa