Monday, August 31, 2015

Raúl Gustavo Aguirre on poetry (from his fourth thesis on poetry) / RGA, sobre la poesía (de su cuarta tesis sobre la poesía)

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... a poem is a fact in a person's existence. In other words, rather than the idealist, non-existent notion of a literary product that ...
Thursday, August 20, 2015

Three poems by Ana Laferranderie (Uruguay, 1969), translated by Judith Filc / Tres poemas de Ana Laferranderie

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Where something is absent. The shadow attached a mountain to her. Seeking relief, she tested the weight of emptiness as if no lands or seas...
Friday, August 14, 2015

Paul Celan on the poem / Paul Celan, sobre el poema

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The poem holds its ground, if you will permit me yet another extreme formulation, the poem holds its ground on its own margin. In order to ...
Tuesday, August 4, 2015

A poem by María Luisa Artecona de Thompson (Paraguay, 1924), translated by Judith Filc / Un poema de María Luisa Artecona de Thompson

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The Time of the Tree It wasn't the tree. But the breeze, yes, and the bird and the prayer of the bird; and the doctrine of t...
Tuesday, July 28, 2015

Italo Calvino, on the interweaving of stories / IC, sobre el entretejido de las tramas

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But how to establish the exact moment when a story begins? Everything has already begun before, the first line of the first page of every n...
Wednesday, July 22, 2015

A poem by Cé Mendizábal (Bolivia, 1956), translated by Judith Filc / Un poema de Cé Mendizábal

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Letter 8 “I want to talk to you about a stone. From a certain perspective, it is just a stone. For my purposes, it doesn't matter wh...
Friday, May 8, 2015

Argentine poet Juanele Ortiz on poetry and music / Juanele, sobre la poesía y la música

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We mustn't forget that I also have something of symbolism in the musical sense, but not music itself, let's say, what can be music ...