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Poem
By Bashō
Translated By Lucien Stryk
Wake, butterfly—
it's late, we've miles
to go together.
it's late, we've miles
to go together.
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By Katherine M. Hedeen & Víctor Rodríguez Núñez
Readers must accept being co-creators.
Poem
By Antonio Gamoneda
Translated By Katherine M. Hedeen & Víctor Rodríguez Núñez
From the violent dampnesses, from
the places where residues
of storms and sobs intertwine
comes
this arterial sorrow, this memory
torn to pieces.
Still losing their minds
those mothers in my veins.
It was
the music mortal, the shriek
of the incessant horses, was
a funeral pavane at the time
of the bloodied cotton…
the places where residues
of storms and sobs intertwine
comes
this arterial sorrow, this memory
torn to pieces.
Still losing their minds
those mothers in my veins.
It was
the music mortal, the shriek
of the incessant horses, was
a funeral pavane at the time
of the bloodied cotton…
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By Peter O’Leary
One of the most famous poems in English, one of the first encounters readers have with modern poetry—and may have even invented modern poetry.
