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Stéphane Mallarmé
Stéphane Mallarmé
Born on March 18, 1842 in Paris, Etienne (Stéphane) Mallarmé was...
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A Tomb for Anatole, 1

 
by Stéphane Mallarmé
translated by Paul Auster

child sprung from
the two of us — showing
us our ideal, the way
— ours! father
and mother who
       sadly existing
survive him as
the two extremes —
badly coupled in him
and sundered
— from whence hi death — o-
bliterating this little child "self"






Copyright © 2005 by Stéphane Mallarmé and Paul Auster. From A Tomb for Anatole. Reprinted with permission of New Directions Press.
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