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Bibliographic Information
Orchard Farming
by Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven
Original Source
Encoded documents and images are derived from manuscripts in the Papers of Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven in Special Collections at the University of Maryland, College Park, Libraries. In addition, individual pages or leaves of manuscripts are identified by the corresponding reel and frame numbers of the microfilm edition of the Freytag-Lorinhoven Papers.
Witness List
- Reel 5, Frame 180
- Reel 5, Frame 181
- Reel 5, Frame 182
- Reel 5, Frame 183
Textual Notes
Drafts of this poem occupy series 3, box 3, folder 14. The poem was
written between 1923 and 1927. To the editor's knowledge, it has not been reprinted or
published.
Electronic Edition Information:
Responsibility Statement:
- Text Encoding by Tanya Clement
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Publication Details:
Published by Tanya Clement.
Office of Digital Collections and Research (DCR), University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven's poetry is printed here with the support of the University of Maryland Libraries. Permission to reproduce images of Freytag-Loringhoven's manuscripts has also been generously granted by the libraries.
This poem and manuscript drafts are available from this site for demonstration purposes only. Though the intellectual property of Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven is in the public domain, all annotations and editorial commentary are copyrighted. They may not be reproduced without explicit permission from the copyright holder. For copyright information, please contact Tanya Clement.
Encoding Principles
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Critical Introduction
Critical Introduction
Elements such as these would not have presented well on the stock, black-and-white, printed publication page. Indeed, it is quite often that, as the Baroness writes, "Print teeth bite."
Like "Matter Level Perspective" in which the Baroness uses lines in addition to words to represent meaning, "Orchard Farming" seems heavily influenced both by the typographical experiments of Tzara and Raul Hausmann and also Francis Picabia’s and Marcel Duchamp’s machine drawings. In "Orchard Farming" slanted lines down the side of the longer stanzas emphasize the fact that each stanza flows from small words to longer words, except for the penultimate stanza. Some lines, like the one-word stanza "CONTRAST" are marked with vertical lines emphasizing their "stopping" affect on the downward progression of the text. Whether the lines were an aid in creating the poem or were intended to exist in the final version of the piece is not obvious from the extant manuscripts for "Orchard Farming," but on a version of "Purgatory Lilt," which the Baroness included in an undated letter to Barnes, the Baroness writes that "the strokes or lines are long and short spaces between words and sentences," indicating that lines do matter (UMD reel 2, frames 226-7). It is evident that the lines reflect the content of the poem, a poem that discusses the flow and halt of life and creative endeavors.
XWitness
ABOUT ORCHARD FARMING
TO
TO MOURNERS - SNOTTY
SNOTTY
EACH AGE PERIOD 'HAS' COUTENANCE FACE FACE - 'GESTURE ' - COUNTENANCE .
AGE - 'EXPRESSION - COUNTENANCE.FACE
HAS FACE .
COUNTENANCE
GESTURE
EXPRESSION
FACE.
THATTHAT WHO HASWICH BEARSDROOPS DROOPS 'WITH' WILTED WITHERED BLOOM -
DROOPS NO FRUIT COUNTENACE - 'IS ' SPRINGYOUTHSPRINGSHELL - YOUTH DUMMYSHELL'GHOSTTREE - 'EARTHRUBBISH.
'GHOST TREE - EARTHEARTHRUBBISH - - WITH
WILTED
BLOOM
IS:
SPRINGSHELL
TREE
GHOST
EARTHRUBBISH.
TO SPRINGSPRING SEED SHALL BE OFFERD GIVEN ITS GIVEN
SEED ITSFERTILIZERDUNGDUNG ' - SPACE -
SHALL SPACE
BE BURNING. IT-
CAST
OFFERD
IT'S
DUNG
SPACE
BURNING.
IN CONSEQUENCETRAST CONTRAST:
THAT POPPSBRIMSPOPPSTHAT WHO BRIMS WITH FRUITS
POPPS
WITH
FRUITS MATURED RESULT -GLOSSGREEN BUFF DAPPELD DINTED
SPIKED
SAFRON CRIMSON FLAME POPPY YELLOW
MATURED
RESULT:
GLOSSGREEN -
BUFF -
BRICK CRIMSON
DAPPLED -
DIMPLED DINTED FURRED
FURRED
SPIKED
SKILLPAYING -
IS
IS VENERABLE - ADORABLE
UNTIL PLUCKED BARE -!
PLUCKED
BARE .
COCK-EEARD
PRIDEBEAMING FOLIAGES LADEN WITH LORE
FOLIAGES'
CROWNS' LADEN WITH LORE
GREENERY
RIFE FRISKYRIFEWITH LORE
WITH
LORE
FRISKS GRINS WIPS
FRISKS BOSSSQUATS FRISKS SQUATS GARDENER
BOSS BEAMINGLORDCREATION .
MUNCHING APPLES COCKEARD GRINNING FOR MUNCHING
XWitness
ABOUT ORCHARD FARMING
TO
TO MOURNERS - SNOTTY
SNOTTY
EACH AGE PERIOD 'HAS' COUTENANCE FACE FACE - 'GESTURE ' - COUNTENANCE .
AGE - 'EXPRESSION - COUNTENANCE.FACE
HAS FACE .
COUNTENANCE
GESTURE
EXPRESSION
FACE.
THATTHAT WHO HASWICH BEARSDROOPS DROOPS 'WITH' WILTED WITHERED BLOOM -
DROOPS NO FRUIT COUNTENACE - 'IS ' SPRINGYOUTHSPRINGSHELL - YOUTH DUMMYSHELL'GHOSTTREE - 'EARTHRUBBISH.
'GHOST TREE - EARTHEARTHRUBBISH - - WITH
WILTED
BLOOM
IS:
SPRINGSHELL
TREE
GHOST
EARTHRUBBISH.
TO SPRINGSPRING SEED SHALL BE OFFERD GIVEN ITS GIVEN
SEED ITSFERTILIZERDUNGDUNG ' - SPACE -
SHALL SPACE
BE BURNING. IT-
CAST
OFFERD
IT'S
DUNG
SPACE
BURNING.
IN CONSEQUENCETRAST CONTRAST:
THAT POPPSBRIMSPOPPSTHAT WHO BRIMS WITH FRUITS
POPPS
WITH
FRUITS MATURED RESULT -GLOSSGREEN BUFF DAPPELD DINTED
SPIKED
SAFRON CRIMSON FLAME POPPY YELLOW
MATURED
RESULT:
GLOSSGREEN -
BUFF -
BRICK CRIMSON
DAPPLED -
DIMPLED DINTED FURRED
FURRED
SPIKED
SKILLPAYING -
IS
IS VENERABLE - ADORABLE
UNTIL PLUCKED BARE -!
PLUCKED
BARE .
COCK-EEARD
PRIDEBEAMING FOLIAGES LADEN WITH LORE
FOLIAGES'
CROWNS' LADEN WITH LORE
GREENERY
RIFE FRISKYRIFEWITH LORE
WITH
LORE
FRISKS GRINS WIPS
FRISKS BOSSSQUATS FRISKS SQUATS GARDENER
BOSS BEAMINGLORDCREATION .
MUNCHING APPLES COCKEARD GRINNING FOR MUNCHING