scriabin's Poem of Extacy

[hodi]

i have heard that scriabin wrote a poem and based on it his poem of extacy and sonata no.5
anyone knows where can i get/see the poem?

[superstition2]

Faubion Bowers' book. Google searching yielded only the following:

Here is a poem about the fourth sonata:

In a light mist, transparent vapour
Lost afar and yet distinct
A star gleams softly.

How beautiful! The bluish mystery
Of her glow
beckons me, cradles me.

O bring me to thee, far distant star!
Bathe me in trembling rays
Sweet light!

Sharp desire, voluptuous and crazed yet sweet
Endlessly with no other goal than longing
I would desire.

But no! I vault in joyous leap
Freely I take wing

Mad dance, godlike play!
Intoxicating shining one!

It is toward thee, adored star
My flight guides me

Toward thee, created freely for me
To serve the end
My flight of liberation!

In this play
Sheer caprice
In moments I forget thee
In the maelstrom that carries me
I veer from thy glimmering rays

In the insanity of desire
thou fadest
O distant goal

But ever thou shinest
As I forever desire thee!

Thou expandest, star!
Now thou art a Sun
Flamboyant Sun! Sun of Triumph!

Approaching thee by my desire for thee
I lave myself in thy changing waves
O joyous god
I swallow thee

Sea of light

My self-of light

I engulf Thee!

Here is what he wrote on the 5th sonata:

I summon you to life, secret yearnings,
You who have been drowned in the dark depths,
Of the creative spirit, you timorous
Embryos of life, it is to you that I bring daring.

[hodi]

Faubion Bowers' book. Google searching yielded only the following:

Here is a poem about the fourth sonata:

Here is what he wrote on the 5th sonata:

Faubion Bowers' book

can u be more specific?
 i can't find it in amazon

[arensky]

Faubion Bowers' book

can u be more specific?
 i can't find it in amazon

There is "The New Scriabin", which contains a lot of the extra-musical stuff and I believe he also wrote a full length biography, "Scriabin".