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Entre Tes Mots (for Jean​-​Joseph Rab​é​arivelo)

from Avant (​+​2 Digital Booklets) by Nas Hedron

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Jean-Joseph Rabéarivelo (Madagascar, 1901 or 1903-1937).

Rabéarivelo was a superb poet from Madagascar who wrote in Malagasy, the national language, as well as in French, the colonial language, in some cases publishing his poems in two versions, one in each tongue. His influences were also dual, including French poets Charles Baudelaire and Arthur Rimbaud, both of whom he translated into Malagasy, and French surrealism, as well as traditional Malagasy literature, which he translated in the other direction. He is known primarily for his poetry, although he also wrote novels, literary criticism, and an opera. When Madagascar gained full independence in 1960, he was declared its national poet.

This composition isn’t named after one of his works, like many of the others here. Instead it tracks Rabéarivelo in an imagined conversation with the long-dead Rimbaud, with whom he identified.

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Je me glisse
Entre tes mots
Entre les feuilles
Entre les sons.

Je perds le chemin
Les étoiles
Toutes les cartes.

Ici je suis perdu
Et ici je me retrouve—
Chez moi encore.

** Translation: Between Your Words **

I slip
Between your words
Between the leaves
Between the sounds.

I lose the path
The stars
All the maps.

Here, I’m lost
And here I rediscover myself—
At home once more.

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from Avant (​+​2 Digital Booklets), released September 28, 2018

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Nas Hedron Toronto, Ontario

“An artist who gives a fresh new and startling meaning to the word interdisciplinary.”
-- Donald Brackett, author of "Back to Black: Amy Winehouse's Only Masterpiece" and "Fleetwood Mac: 40 Years of Creative Chaos."

Nas Hedron divides his time between his native Canada and Brazil. ... more

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