By Michelle Cho, Nasher Museum Intern
Did you know that Picasso wrote over 300 poems? Check out a poem he wrote in 1940 and transcribed as a lithograph:
Tuesday 5 November 40
on the blazing pyre where
the witch was roasting naked
I had fun
paying lip-service
to this afternoon
with my nails
gently flaying
the skin of all
the flames
at five past one
in the morning and later
now ten minutes
to three my fingers still
smelled of warm bread honey
and jasmine
Translated by Pierre Joris, in Jerome Rothenberg and Pierre Joris, eds., The Burial of the Count of Orgaz and Other Poems by Pablo Picasso (Cambridge, Mass.: Exact Change, 2004), 225-26.