Ron Padgett reads Blaise Cendrars’s poem “The Head,” 1914.

Blaise Cendrars wrote “The Head” about Alexander Archipenko and his work.

Transcript
Padgett: "The Head,” by Blaise Cendrars.

The guillotine is the masterpiece of plastic art
Its click
Creates perpetual motion
Everyone knows about Christopher Columbus’s egg
Which was a flat egg, a stationary egg, the egg of an inventor
Archipenko’s sculpture is the first ovoidal egg
Held in intense equilibrium
Like an immobile top
On its animated point
Speed
It throws off
Multicolored waves
Colored zones
And turns in depth
Nude.
New.
Total.

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