KAMENU
Kamenu is a performance inspired by three selected poems of the American writer Robinson Jeffers. This piece explores the relationship between the ephemerality of stone as a building material and poetry as a way of communicating through time. Come and experience the fascinating images of landscapes, time, language and stone, within a unique work of the legendary poet Robinson Jeffers (Cawdor, Shepherdess traveling to April, Mara, Roan Stallion, Be Angry at the Sun, ...).
Old garden of grayish and ochre lichen, How long a rime since the brown people who have vanished from here Built fires beside you and nestled by you Out of the ranging sea-wind? A hundred years, two hundred, You have been dissevered from humanity And only known the stubble squirrels and the headland rabbits, Or the long-fetlocked plowhorses Breaking the hilltop in December, sea-gulls following, Screaming in the black furrow; no one Touched you with love, the gray hawk and the red hawk touched you Where now my hand lies. So I have brought you Wine and white milk and honey for the hundred years of famine And the hundred cold ages of sea-wind.