Paul ELUARD (1895-1952). Autograph poem signed, Le Cimetière des Fous, 1943; 1page in-4.
Poem written during the Occupation in Saint-Alban, Lozère, where Eluard was hiding in Dr. Lucien Bonnafé's psychiatric hospital.
The poem consists of three quatrains and a monostic. It was published in Messages (nouvelle série, 1944, cahier 1), and collected in Le lit la table, published in Switzerland in early 1944.
It is carefully written in black ink; the title, the dedication "to Jean and Lucien Bonnafé", and the date "St Alban 1943" are calligraphed in colored inks.
"Ce cimetière enfanté par la lune
Between two waves of black sky
This archipelago of memory
Lives of mad winds and ruined spirits"...
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