Thursday, October 31, 2013

Two poems by Circe Maia (Uruguay, 1932), my translation / Dos poemas de CM

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  Caraguatá Poems I At the final hour each will have his own little landscape to erase that sick room dimness. That se...
Monday, October 28, 2013

Heinrich Boll, on the power of words / HB, sobre el poder de las palabras

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Behind every word a whole world is hidden that must be imagined. Actually, every word has a great burden of memories, no...
Friday, October 25, 2013

Two poems by Natalia Litvinova (Belarus, 1986, lives in Argentina), my translation / Dos poemas de NL

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The Last Waist After years of perfectly drawn plans, my mother ended up mending other people's clothes. One day Juan showed u...
Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Joaquín Gianuzzi, on poetry / JG, acerca de la poesía

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  I experience the dramatic feeling of poetry in the sense that poetry opens a crack, a potential hope of instating a faith in the unknown...
Saturday, October 19, 2013

A poem by José Barroeta (Venezuela, 1942-2006), my translation / Un poema de JB

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  Song of Myself I was the poet of my land and of the whole Earth. Inside me it rained and lightning fell and I always felt...
Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Paul Valéry on nature and poetic creation / Paul Valéry, acerca de la naturaleza y la creación poética

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  Who knows, I thought, if the real in its countless forms is not as arbitrarily, as senselessly produced as these animal arabesque...
Sunday, October 6, 2013

Two poems by María Auxiliadora Álvarez (Venezuela, 1956), my translation / Dos poemas de MAA

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The Sky Further Up the promptest thing about trees is their purpose of messing up the sky below ...