ISBN 1-879585-01-4

FLORENTINSMARANDACHE

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'll 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
PQrtraits, 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 cliche 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.
Becaqse 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
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- What o'clock is it?

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Amertcan ".nlf••to: THE PARADOXIST MOVEMENT

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Lyrical Landscape 42
Flower-Poem 43
Dream from Alaska 44
Obsession 45
Boat of Noe 46
Cat's Eyes 47
Mistress 48
Mechanical Singing Bird 49
Future Man 50
Genius Twinkle 51

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 Electrical Power Signal - - - - - - - - - 52
Angle of Sight 53
Trawl 54
Connexions 55

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Memory Road 58
Errugrant Day 59
Digit Dictatorship 60
Idea Anarchy 61

Self-Portret Poem

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Blank Verse 64
Black Verse 65
Haiku Poem 66
Reductio ad Absurdium 67
Tabula Rasa 68
Null and Void Hymn 69
Introspection 70
Meditation (the reader can imagine anything) - 71
Transcendental Sense 73
Universality 74
Absolute 75
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Eternity 77
Infinity 78
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Second 88
Third 89
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De ar Re ad er & No n-R ead er,
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 THE PARADOXIST MOVEMENT
Ten years ago the Author set up the P a r ado x
i s t M 0 v e men t in Romania together with a
group of writers (Constantin M. Popa, Constantin
Dinca, 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 wr i ters : from
Morocco (Khal il Ralss) , France (Claude LeRoy,
Chantal Signoret, Annie Delperier, Paul Courget,
Chris Bernard, Jean-Michel Levenard), 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