tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88385384017326443522024-03-13T05:56:34.549-07:00Good Soldiers And Closely Watched TrainsEugene Costahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15649417453647803409noreply@blogger.comBlogger265125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8838538401732644352.post-7022353609042505602016-12-30T21:06:00.000-08:002016-12-30T21:06:16.651-08:00Pablo Neruda: Casi fuera del cielo/ Almost Out of the Sky<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Casi fuera del cielo ancla entre dos
montañas </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">la mitad de la luna.<br />Girante, errante
noche, la cavadora de ojos.<br />A ver cuántas estrellas
trizadas en la charca.<br /><br />Hace una cruz de luto entre mis
cejas, huye.<br />Fragua de metales azules, noches de las
calladas luchas,<br />mi corazón da vueltas como un volante
loco.<br />Niña venida de tan lejos, traída de tan lejos,<br />a
veces fulgurece su mirada debajo del cielo.<br />Quejumbre,
tempestad, remolino de furia,<br />cruza encima de mi corazón,
sin detenerte.<br />Viento de los sepulcros acarrea, destroza,
dispersa tu raíz soñolienta.<br />Desarraiga los grandes
árboles al otro lado de ella.<br />Pero tú, clara niña,
pregunta de humo, espiga.<br />Era la que iba formando el viento
con hojas iluminadas.<br />Detrás de las montañas nocturnas,
blanco lirio de incendio,<br />ah nada puedo decir! Era hecha de
todas las cosas.<br /><br />Ansiedad que partiste mi pecho a
cuchillazos,<br />es hora de seguir otro camino, donde ella no
sonría.<br />Tempestad que enterró las campanas, turbio revuelo
de tormentas<br />para qué tocarla ahora, para qué
entristecerla.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />Ay seguir el camino que se aleja de
todo,<br />donde no esté atajando la angustia, la muerte, el
invierno,<br />con sus ojos abiertos entre el rocío.
</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
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<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Pablo Neruda</span></b></div>
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</span></div>
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<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="tran1"></a><b>Almost Out of the
sky</b><br /><br />Almost out of the sky half moon</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">lies at anchor between two mountains.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Spinning, wandering night, excavator of
eyes. </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="tran5"></a>To see so many
stars smashed to shards in the tarn.<br /><br />She brands a cross
of mourning between my brows, then flees.<br />Forge of blue
metals, nights of silenced struggles--</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">my heart turns madly like a flywheel.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />Little one come from so far away,
brought from so far away,</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">at times your gaze flashes forth from
the sky.<br />Plaint, tempest, fury's whirlpool--flares over my
heart</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">with no stopping you.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="tran8"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="tran10"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="tran12"></a>
<br />Wind of sepulchers wafts, obliterates, scatters your sleeping
core,<br />uproots huge trees to the other side of her.<br />But you,
cloudless girl, question mark of smoke, spike of wheat<br />were
she who went about shaping the wind with brightly lit leaves.<br />Behind
the night mountains, a white iris of fire--</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="tran13"></a>Ah! I can say
nothing aright—of all that exists! <br /><br />The unease--that
you shared out my heart at knifepoint.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="tran14"></a>It is time to
follow another road, where she might not smile madly.<br />Tempest that
drowned out bells, great roiled stir of storms--</span></i></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>to what purpose touch her now, to what
purpose sadden her?<br /></i></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Ay--to follow the road that distances from</i><i> all,</i></span></div>
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<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">on which she may not be sensible of
anguish, of death, of winter,</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">with eyes wide in the dew.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Tr. E.A.C.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">E. A. Costa 30 December, 2016
Granada. Nicaragua.</span></i></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>_____________________________________________________</i><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></i></span></div>
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<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">N. B: Poem 11 of 20 Poemas de amor y
una canción desesperada.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"> Note the cryptotype of “si fuera el
cielo” (if it were heaven)</span></i></div>
Eugene Costahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15649417453647803409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8838538401732644352.post-41734586677091932462016-12-28T19:25:00.000-08:002016-12-28T19:36:57.470-08:00H. D.(Hilda Doolittle): Mysteries Remain/ Misterios permanecen<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="src1"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="src2"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="src3"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="src4"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="src5"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="src6"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="src7"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="src8"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="src9"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="src10"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="src11"></a>
<b>Mysteries Remain</b><br /><br />The mysteries remain,<br />I keep the
same cycle of seed-time and of sun and rain;<br />Demeter in the
grass,<br />I multiply, renew and bless<br />Bacchus in the vine;<br />I
hold the law,<br />I keep the mysteries true, the first of these to
name the living, dead;<br />I am the wine and bread.<br /><br />I keep the
law,<br />I hold the mysteries true,<br />I am the vine, the branches,
you, and you</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="tran0"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="tran1"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="tran3"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="tran4"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="tran5"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="tran6"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="tran8"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="tran10"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="tran11"></a><b>
Misterios Permanecen</b><br /><br />Los misterios permanecen,<br />Llevo el
ritmo del mismo ciclo de la siembra y del sol y de la lluvia;<br />Demeter
en la hierba,<br />Multiplico, renuevo y bendigo<br />A Baco en la
vid;<br />Sostengo la ley,<br />Mantengo los misterios como verdaderos,
el primero es denominar los vivos y los muertos;<br />Soy el vino y el
pan.<br /><br />Mantengo la ley,<br />Sostengo los misterios como
verdaderos,<br />Soy la vid, los brotes, tú, y tú.</i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b style="background-color: black;"><i>
Tr. E. A. C.</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i style="background-color: black;">
E. A. Costa December 28, 2016 Granada, Nicaragua</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i style="background-color: black;">___________________________________________________________</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><i style="background-color: black;">
N.B.: (1) from Sea Garden (1916); (2) Compare Genesis 8.22: cunctis diebus terrae</i></span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><i style="background-color: black;">sementis et
messis frigus </i></span><i style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">et aestus aestas et hiemps nox et dies non requiescent.</span></span></i></div>
Eugene Costahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15649417453647803409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8838538401732644352.post-29697415485053718192016-11-05T21:48:00.000-07:002016-11-07T10:22:00.502-08:00The Mirror-Bearer/ El portador del espejo<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">If a</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">looking</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">glass could</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">mirror this</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">morning it</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">would be</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Cocibolca</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">sweet sea
</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">east of Granada—</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">and today windless, still, and placid.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Brought low by drought, it drank</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">a seasonful of rain</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">and once again is fat</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">and sleek as an owl in</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">a hundred shades of gray.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Across to the other shore</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">stared back the mountains of Boaco and
Chontales.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Above, His Royal Highness Sky and below
and at his feet,</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">loyal servitor seconding every glance,
the Mirror-Bearer Lake.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">E. A. Costa</span></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: right;">
<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">El Portador del Espejo</span></b></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: right;">
<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></b></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: right;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Si un</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: right;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">espejo</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: right;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">pudiera</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">reflejar esta</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">mañana él
</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">sería Coci-</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">bolca, mar</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">dulce al</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">este de Granada--</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: right;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">y hoy sin viento, inmóvil,
y plácido.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: right;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Caído bajo por la sequía,
ha bebido una temporada</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: right;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">de lluvia y de nuevo es</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: right;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">gordo y luminoso como</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: right;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">un buho de cien matices</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: right;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">de color gris. Sobre el </span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: right;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">lago a otra orilla se </span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: right;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">quedan mirando las montañas de
Boaco y Chontales. Arriba</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: right;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> estaban Su Alteza Real El Cielo y
abajo a sus pies el servidor leal que</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: right;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">secunda cada mirada
lanzada, el Portador del Espejo El Lago.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: right;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: right;">
<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Tr. EAC</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></b></div>
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<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">E. A. Costa November 5, 2016 Granada, Nicaragua</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">_____________________________________________________________</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">N.B.: (1) Cocibolca is the
local name for Lake Nicaragua, also known as Lake Granada, meaning in Nahuatl, “the
sweet sea” (el mar dulce) where the “sweet” denotes fresh water
as opposed to salt. (2) The Mirror-Bearer is the Mayan factotum that
carried a mirror for the Prince or King to gaze into. Often a dwarf
or a small carved figure, as here:</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;">
<a href="https://si.wsj.net/public/resources/images/RV-AC135_Vizual_E_20110325001159.jpg" style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: small;">https://si.wsj.net/public/resources/images/RV-AC135_Vizual_E_20110325001159.jpg</a><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"> </span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">from a Wall Street Journal Article available here:</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"></span><a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748703858404576214923106032328" style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: small;">http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748703858404576214923106032328</a><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"> </span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">Mirrors, of metal, ore, polished obsidian and such are a distinctive
and transcultural artifact of Meso-American cultures. Though
probably used at times for cosmetics, the principal use for mirrors
was religious and spiritual and was shared by many of the tribes in
the area, including both Aztecs and Mayas, from Mexico in the North
to Guatemala and further south where Maya also reached. The mirror
was considered a channel to a spiritual realm that could not
otherwise be seen, and perhaps also with properties of an amulet.
Warriors, for example, wore mirrors on the small of the back.
Mirrors were also identified with water and with the sun. In many
carvings eyes are inset mirrors as are pools of water. A rare
surviving wood carving of a Mayan Mirror-Bearer is available here:</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"></span><a href="http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/313256" style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: small;">http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/313256</a></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: right;">
<br /></div>
Eugene Costahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15649417453647803409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8838538401732644352.post-11962111047354664362016-10-30T20:20:00.001-07:002016-11-02T11:50:13.445-07:00Emily Dickinson: The Sky Is Low--The Clouds Are Mean... / El Cielo es bajo, malvadas son las nubes...<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Sky is low — the Clouds are mean.<br />A Travelling Flake of
Snow<br />Across a Barn or through a Rut<br />Debates if it will go —<br /><br />A
Narrow Wind complains all Day<br />How some one treated him;<br />Nature,
like Us is sometimes caught<br />Without her Diadem.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Emily Dickinson</span></b><br />
<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></b>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><b>El cielo es bajo, malvadas son
las nubes... </b></i><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></b></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">El cielo es bajo, malvadas son las
nubes.<br />Un copo viajante de nieve considera</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">si a través del granero o por una
rodera</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="tran4"></a><i>se irá. <br /><br />Todo
el díá se queja el viento estrecho <br />sobre cómo por alguien era
maltratado. </i>
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Como nosotros, no coronada se puede
atrapar</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Natura.</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Tr. EAC</span></b></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">E. A. Costa
October 30, 2016 Granada, Nicaragua</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">______________________________________________________________</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">N. B.: This
poem (1075) of Dickinson is, on the one hand, a close to perfect
illustration of John Ruskin's pathetic fallacy—and that surely
intentionally--and, on the other, a subtle and ironic reversal of it,
then itself reversed. In his Modern Painters, a book Dickinson much
admired, Ruskin defined the so-called fallacy (here meaning
falseness) thus: “All violent feelings...produce impressions of
external things, which I would generally characterize as 'The Pathetic
Fallacy'.” Here Dickinson plays with the idea, with among other
things masterly ambiguity, where a “low” sky and “mean”
clouds can be perfectly and scientifically descriptive, while even
the howl of the wind may sound querulous. Anyone who has lived in New
England for any time will recognize just such mean and low days,
especially in late Fall or early Spring, in which even the wind seems
to have something to complain about. Importantly, Ruskin did not
discountenance the use of the pathetic fallacy, as long as it was not
false, that is, did not falsely attribute to nature attributes that
were genuinely the subjective effect of pathos in the observer.
Dickinson here expands the figure not to something violently
pathetic, but to the observation that both human beings and nature
have undiademed days, ordinary and mean, when they are not at their
best. The clincher here is the snowflake, potentially a more than
ordinary or mean image, especially being singular, which cannot make
up its mind which way to go off, thus mirroring the Ruskin's “web
of hesitant sentiment, pathetic fallacy, and wandering fancy”,
alloyed with “all manner of purposeful play and conceit” (also in
Modern Painters)--which is almost an exact description of Dickinson,
at work and play and feeling in and on this poem. To say that the
poem is ironic and playful, which clearly it is, is not to discount seriousness and sadness--here with Dickinson herself, in one role at least, as the
snowflake, and also solitary and unwed, thus balancing against one another the two necessary
levels of all irony, surface and underlying meaning.</span></i></div>
Eugene Costahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15649417453647803409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8838538401732644352.post-9926372548805188382016-10-27T11:10:00.000-07:002016-10-27T17:34:26.014-07:00Silence (to Álvaro Urtecho)/ Silencio (a Álvaro Urtecho)<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></b></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Silence</span></b></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <i>To
Álvaro Urtecho*</i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">
The whisperer:</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">
who speaks low,</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">
who murmurs mute,</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">
whose haunting breath rustles</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">
in the syrinx of the blackest cave,</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">
the one whose curving fingers</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">
create space and murder time.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">E. A. Costa</span></b></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></b></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></b></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Silencio</i></span></b></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> a Álvaro Urtecho*</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><br />
</i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="tran2"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="tran3"></a>
El susurrador<br />quien habla bajo,</i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>quien murmura mudo,
</i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>cuyo aliento cruje en la siringa
</i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>y embruja la cueva más negra,</i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>él cuyos dedos en curva</i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">crean el espacio y asesinan el tiempo. </span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Tr. EAC</i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>E. A. Costa October 27, 2016 Granada, Nicaragua</i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>_____________________________________________________</i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>N.B.: *Álvaro Urtecho (1951-2007), poeta nicaragüense</i></span></div>
Eugene Costahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15649417453647803409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8838538401732644352.post-42973309519455165212016-10-26T21:34:00.000-07:002016-10-27T12:58:04.710-07:00Unutterance/ Inelocución<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">To the left</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">on a wooden table</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">the computer screen</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">white with what was</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">an hour or so ago</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">blank page.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">To the right</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">an open patio</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">of tropic night</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">before the rain</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">with clouds</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">quivering</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">in small</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">bursts of lightning</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">and low warning</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">snarls of thunder.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The light flickers</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">like butterflies
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">or fluttering</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">flowers of milk.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The sound rolls on</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">and there is no sense.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">E. A. Costa</span></b></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Inelocución</span></b></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="tran0"></a><i>A la izquierda</i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">sobre una mesa</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">de madera la pantalla</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>blanca del ordenador </i>
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">con lo que era</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">hace una hora o más</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="tran1"></a><i>una página en
blanco.<br /><br />A la derecha</i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">un patio frente</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">a la noche trópica</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">antes de la lluvia</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">con nubes que tiemblan</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>en ráfagas pequeñas </i>
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>de relámpago </i>
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">y gruñidos de aviso</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="tran2"></a><i>de truenos.<br /><br />La
luz parpadea</i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">como mariposas</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">o flores de leche</span></i></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="tran3"></a><i>que
revolotean.<br /><br />El sonido sigue rodando</i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>y no hay ningún sentido. </i>
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<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Tr. EAC</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">E. A. Costa October 27, 2016
Granada, Nicaragua</span></i></div>
Eugene Costahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15649417453647803409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8838538401732644352.post-45952157074660434912016-10-25T23:03:00.000-07:002016-10-29T10:38:13.612-07:00Théophile Gautier: Sérénade/ Serenade/ Serenata<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Sur le balcon où tu te penches<br />Je veux monter... efforts
perdus!<br />Il est trop haut, et tes mains blanches<br />N'atteignent
pas mes bras tendus.<br /><br />Pour déjouer ta duègne avare,<br />Jette
un collier, un ruban d'or ;<br />Ou des cordes de ta guitare<br />Tresse
une échelle, ou bien encor...<br /><br />Ôte tes fleurs, défais ton
peigne,<br />Penche sur moi tes cheveux longs,<br />Torrent de jais dont
le flot baigne<br />Ta jambe ronde et tes talons.<br /><br />Aidé par
cette échelle étrange,<br />Légèrement je gravirai,<br />Et jusqu'au
ciel, sans être un ange,<br />Dans les parfums je monterai!</span><br />
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<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Théophile Gautier</span></b><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /><br />
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<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Serenade </i></span></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><br />
</i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>I want to scale the balcony</i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>over which you lean—a waste of
energy!</i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>It is too high and your candent hands</i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>won't reach my outstretched arms.</i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><br />
</i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Thwart your stingy chaperone</i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>and throw me your necklace,</i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>a golden yellow ribbon,</i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>or from guitar strings</i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>plait a ladder, or once more...</i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><br />Release the flowers from your hair,</i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>undo your comb and send down upon me</i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>the long jet-black tresses whose
waterfall</i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>cascades over shapely legs and heels.</i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>By such droll aid ascending</i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>I'll waft up airily and, with no need</i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>to be angelic, will mount right up</i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>to heaven in your scent.</i></span></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Tr. EAC</i></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Serenata</i></span></b></div>
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</i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Al balcón sobre
que te estás inclinando<br />quiero subir—¡Esfuerzo en vano!<br />Es
demasiado alto, y tus manos cándidas<br />no pueden alcanzar mis
brazos levantados.</i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="tran9"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="tran10"></a>
Para desbaratar a tu dueña avara,<br />échame un collar, una cinta de
oro;<br />o con las cuerdas de tu guitarra<br />trenza una escalera de
nudos, o otra vez...<br /><br />Quita las flores, deshaz el peine,<br />y
sobre mí deja caer tu melena,<br />cuya cascada azabache baña<br />tus
piernas torneadas y talones.<br /><br />Por esta escala
extraña,<br />ligeramente subiré,<br />y sin ser un ángel, hasta el
cielo<br />ascenderé en tu perfume!</i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Tr. EAC
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<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">E. A. Costa October 25, 2016
Granada, Nicaragua</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">_______________________________________________</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">N.B.: The poem is from Gautier's
España and </span></i><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">is many-layered, with</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">a hint of the
ingenuity of the poets a</span></i><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><i style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">nd troupadours of </i><i style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </i><i style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Provençal </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><i style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">applied to the Spanish </i></span><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">serenade. The first hint of even
deeper drollery</span></i></span></div>
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<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">are </span></i><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">the lady's guitar strings (cordes de
ta guitare) which </span></i><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">are proper</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">to the serenader not the
serenaded. How did </span></i><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">they get there and </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">become hers? Hasn't the serendader already passed up his</span></i><br />
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">guitar?</span></i><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">There
follows the deliberate </span></i><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">use of the archaic form</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">of encore in
bien encor, </span></i><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">missing an “e” followed by
ellipsis.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">This seems no more </span></i><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">than the equivalent use of the
English “yet again”</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">when </span></i><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">enumerating, as in “still yet”
and “or once more”, </span></i><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">as if just</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">coming up with a new idea
to try out. But here </span></i><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">also may be hidden</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">an “again”
that suggests, with </span></i><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">upstairs guitar strings, this is not</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">the first time. The </span></i><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">last part is obvious: the serenader
reaching his</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">“heaven”</span></i><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">is no angel—nor perhaps the
serenaded.</span></i></div>
Eugene Costahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15649417453647803409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8838538401732644352.post-32221770639675591102016-10-24T20:57:00.000-07:002016-11-07T10:49:13.989-08:00Francis Saltus Saltus: The Sphinx Speaks/ La Espinge habla<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Carved by a mighty race whose vanished hands</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Formed empires more destructible than I,</span><br />
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<dt><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">In sultry silence I forever lie,</span></dt>
<dd><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></dd>
<dt><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Wrapped in the shifting garment of the sands.</span></dt>
<dd><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></dd>
<dt><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Below me, Pharaoh’s scintillating bands</span></dt>
<dd><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></dd>
<dt><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">With clashings of loud cymbals have passed by,</span></dt>
<dd><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></dd>
<dt><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">And the eternal reverence of the sky</span></dt>
<dd><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></dd>
<dt><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Falls royally on me and all my lands.</span></dt>
<dd><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></dd>
<dt><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The record of the future broods in me;</span></dt>
<dd><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></dd>
<dt><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I have with worlds of blazing stars been crowned,</span></dt>
<dd><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></dd>
<dt><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">But none my subtle mystery hath known</span></dt>
<dd><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></dd>
<dt><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Save one, who made his way through blood and sea,</span></dt>
<dd><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></dd>
<dt><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Corsican, prophetic and renowned,</span></dt>
<dd><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></dd>
<dt><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">To whom I spake, one awful night alone!</span></dt>
<dt><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></dt>
<dd style="margin-left: 0in;"><b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Francis Saltus Saltus</span></b></dd></dl>
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<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="tran0"></a><b>La Esfinge habla</b><br /><br />Tallada por una raza poderosa cuyas manos desaparecidas<br />formaron imperios más efímeros que yo,</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">voluptuosa me agacho aquí por siempre y en silencio,<br />abrigada en el manto movedizo de las arenas.<br /><br />Abajo han desfilado las bandas centelleantes del Faraón<br />al sonido de címbalos ruidosos,</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">y la reverencia eterna del cielo cae sobre mí</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">como reina y sobre todas estas tierras.<br /><br />La crónica del porvenir se incuba en mí,<br />con mundos de astros ardientes he sido coronada,<br />pero nadie ha conocido mi misterio sutil salvo uno,</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />que vino acá por mar y sangre--el corso renombrado</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">y profético con quien una noche espantosa a solas hablé.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></i></div>
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<b><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Tr. EAC</span></i></b></div>
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<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">E. A. Costa October 24, 2016 Granada, Nicaragua</span></i></div>
Eugene Costahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15649417453647803409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8838538401732644352.post-89348856250643150792016-10-23T10:47:00.000-07:002016-10-27T17:49:25.960-07:00Plinio el Viejo: ¡Ave! de un ave: "¡Salve--hipo--César!"<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Super omnia humanas voces reddunt, psittaci quidem etiam sermocinantes. india hanc avem mittit, siptacen vocat, viridem toto corpore, torque tantum miniato in cervice distinctam. imperatores salutatet et quae accipit verba pronuntiat, in vino praecipue lasciva. </span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black;"><i><span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Gaius Plinius Secundus</span></i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">"Pero por encima de todo, hay algunos pájaros que pueden
imitar la voz humana--el loro, por ejemplo, que aún puede conversar.
India nos envía este pájaro, llamado sittaces. El cuerpo es verde por todas las partes, marcado con un toque
de rojo alrededor del cuello. Este pájaro saludará a un emperador,
y pronunciará las palabras habladas que ha oído. Se hace
especialmente juguetón bajo la influencia de vino. "</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Plinio
el Viejo (tr. EAC) </span></div>
Eugene Costahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15649417453647803409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8838538401732644352.post-3239127898244887422016-10-21T21:52:00.000-07:002016-10-21T21:58:52.592-07:00Ugo Foscolo: Alla Sera/ To Evening/ Al atardecer<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="riga14"></a>Forse perchè
della fatal quïete<br />Tu sei l’immago a me sì cara, vieni,<br />O
Sera! E quando ti corteggian liete<br />Le nubi estive e i zeffiri
sereni,<br /><br />E quando dal nevoso aere inquiete<br />Tenebre, e
lunghe, all’universo meni,<br />Sempre scendi invocata, e le
secrete<br />Vie del mio cor soavemente tieni.<br /><br />Vagar mi fai co’
miei pensier su l’orme<br />Che vanno al nulla eterno; e intanto
fugge<br />Questo reo tempo, e van con lui le torme<br /><br />Delle cure,
onde meco egli si strugge;<br />E mentre io guardo la tua pace,
dorme<br />Quello spirto guerrier ch’entro mi rugge.
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Ugo Foscolo</span></b></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">To Evening</span></b></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Perhaps exactly because you are the
very mask</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">of deathly stillness, you come to me
so beloved, oh Night!--</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">with a cortege of gleeful clouds and
complacent summer breezes,</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Or from snow-cold air you lead
shadows long</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">and roiled into the cosmos, descend
ever prayed for</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>and softly take hold of the secret ways of
my heart. </i>
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">You make me wander with my thoughts
over trails</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">that lead into the eternal void and
while</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">flees this evildoer Time and with
him his throng</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Of cares, by which he along with me
is worn away,</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">as I gaze upon your peace and
soundly sleeps</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">the warring spirit that within me
roars.</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Tr. EAC</span></b></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></b></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></b></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Al atardecer</span></b></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></b></i></div>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Tal vez porque eres la imagen </i>
</span><br />
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">de quietud fatal, a mí vienes tan querida,</span></i><br />
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">¡O Noche!--cuando te acompañan alegres</span></i><br />
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">nubes estivales y céfiros ligeros.</span></i><br />
<br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>O cuando por el aire nevoso tinieblas </i>
</span><br />
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">agitadas y largas al universo tú conduces,</span></i><br />
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">y descendiendo siempre invocada, capturas</span></i><br />
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">suavemente las vías secretas de mi corazón.</span></i><br />
<br />
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Me haces vagar con mis pensamientos sobre las pistas</span></i><br />
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">que desembocan en el vacio eterno y mientras que huye</span></i><br />
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">este tiempo malvado y con él los tormentos</span></i><br />
<br />
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">De mis pesares, por los que él conmigo es destruido</span></i><br />
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">cuando contemplo tu paz y se adormece</span></i><br />
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">aquel espíritu guerrero que ruge dentro de mí.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></i>
<i><b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Tr. EAC</span></b></i><br />
<i><b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></b></i>
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">E. A. Costa October 21, 2016 Granada, Nicaragua</span></i><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i> </i>
</div>
Eugene Costahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15649417453647803409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8838538401732644352.post-70238682211845597542016-10-19T08:58:00.000-07:002016-10-19T08:58:46.581-07:00La nueva antipoesía/ The New Antipoetry<br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Escríbelo sobre los muros</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">cuando él muere:</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Si Nicanor Parra es el antipoeta,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Hugo Chávez es el antipinochet.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">E. A. Costa</span></b><br />
<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></b>
<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></b>
<b><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The New Antipoetry</span></i></b><br />
<b><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></i></b>
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Write it on the walls</span></i><br />
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">when he dies:</span></i><br />
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></i>
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">If Nicanor Parra is the antipoet,</span></i><br />
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Hugo Chávez is the antipinochet.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></i>
<b><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Tr. EAC</span></i></b><br />
<b><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></i></b>
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">E. A. Costa el 3 de octubre de 2016 Granada, Nicaragua</span></i>Eugene Costahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15649417453647803409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8838538401732644352.post-87887826541371647132016-10-18T18:09:00.000-07:002016-10-18T21:45:08.242-07:00Ananke/ Ananké<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"> <span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> πάντας δ᾽ ἐπαίνημι καὶ φιλέω<br /> ἑκὼν ὅστις ἕρδῃ<br /> μηδὲν αἰσχρόν: ἀνάγκῃ δ᾽ οὐδὲ θεοὶ μάχονται.*</span></span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> Simonides </i>
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">With Chronos I merge </span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">through the
fissure in nothing,</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">each of us a
serpent, the two intertwined,</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">binding taut the
egg of our emergence,
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">right-angled at
every intersection.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">he the line of
time,</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I the necklace of
constriction.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Winged and
feathered but no bird,</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I am unsubject to
my own compulsion,</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">nor am I content
nor uncontent,</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I am simply there
forever and no farther,</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">coiled round the
curving vector of his unfolding,</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">for there is no
holding beyond him save me</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">and no being held
within me save he.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">What is let loose, is let loose, what is bound, bound.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">What will be is,
what was is—his the slow flowing</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">and mine the fast
constraint....</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">E. A. Costa</span></b></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Ananké</span></b></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> πάντας δ᾽ ἐπαίνημι καὶ φιλέω<br /> ἑκὼν ὅστις ἕρδῃ<br /> μηδὲν αἰσχρόν: ἀνάγκῃ δ᾽ οὐδὲ θεοὶ μάχονται.*</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="tran3"></a><i><b> </b>Simonides<b>
</b><br /><br /><br />Con Crono me fusiono<br /><br />por la grieta en
nada,<br /><br />nosotros dos serpientes,</i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="tran7"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="tran8"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="tran9"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="tran10"></a>
<i>los dos entrelazados,<br /><br />que aferran el huevo de nuestra
aparición,<br /><br />rectángulos en cada intersección,<br /><br />él
la línea de mi tiempo,<br /><br />y yo el collar de su
constricción.<br /><br />Alada y plumosa pero ningún pájaro,<br /><br />soy
inmune a mi propia compulsión.<br /><br />Ni contenta ni
descontenta,<br /><br />estoy simplemente allí y no más allá, </i>
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="tran16"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="tran17"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="tran18"></a>
<i><br />enrollar el vector encorvado de su desdoblamiento,<br /><br />porque
nada existe allá de él salvo mí<br /><br />y nada se sostiene dentro
de mí salvo él.<br /><br />Lo que es soltado es soltado, lo que es
atado es atado.<br /><br />Lo que será es, lo que era es – el suyo es
el corriente lento,</i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>la mía la coacción tenaz.... </i>
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Tr. EAC</span></b></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">E. A. Costa October 18, Granada, Nicaragua </span></i><br />
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">__________________________________________________</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>N.B.: *“I praise and consider as
friends all who do no shameful thing willingly,</i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>but even the gods do
not struggle against Ananke.”/ "Elogio a todos y soy amigo</i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>de todos que no
hacen nada de deshonroso de buen grado, pero aún los dioses no</i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>luchan contra Ananké.” (quotation of Simonides by Plato)
Ananke—in Greek</i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>Ἀνάγκη, in Latin Necessitas--is the goddess
of necessity, force or compulsion,</i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>in English sometimes also spelled
as Anance, or Anagke, the latter an accurate</i></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>transliteration but
misleading, since in Greek gamma before kappa is pronounced</i></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>as nu.
The Spanish version is Ananké or Ananque, though Rubén Darío in
one of </i></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">the poems of Azul used the transliterated version, Anagke.
Chronos--</span><span lang="grc-GR" style="font-size: x-small;">Χρόνος—</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">is</span></i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Chronos
protogonos, not the Titan Kronus (Κρόνος), father of Zeus.
Ananke, the</i></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>daughter of Chronos, merges with Chronos in pre-universal Chaos, to produce the</i></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Cosmos or
Cosmic Egg.</i></span></span></div>
Eugene Costahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15649417453647803409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8838538401732644352.post-65416502905925178062016-10-12T11:00:00.000-07:002016-10-13T09:08:42.478-07:00Sara Teasdale: There Will Come Soft Rains/ Vendrán lluvias suaves<blockquote style="margin-left: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></blockquote>
<blockquote style="margin-left: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">There will come soft rains and
the smell of the ground,</span></blockquote>
<blockquote style="margin-left: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">And swallows circling with their
shimmering sound;</span></blockquote>
<blockquote style="margin-left: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">And frogs in the pools singing
at night,</span></blockquote>
<blockquote style="margin-left: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">And wild plum trees in tremulous
white,</span></blockquote>
<blockquote style="margin-left: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Robins will wear their feathery
fire,</span></blockquote>
<blockquote style="margin-left: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Whistling their whims on a low
fence-wire;</span></blockquote>
<blockquote style="margin-left: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">And not one will know of the
war, not one</span></blockquote>
<blockquote style="margin-left: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Will care at last when it is
done.</span></blockquote>
<blockquote style="margin-left: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Not one would mind, neither bird
nor tree,</span></blockquote>
<blockquote style="margin-left: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">If mankind perished utterly;</span></blockquote>
<blockquote style="margin-left: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">And Spring herself, when she
woke at dawn,</span></blockquote>
<blockquote style="margin-left: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Would scarcely know that we were
gone.</span> </blockquote>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Sara Teasdale </b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><br /></b></span>
<br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Vendrán lluvias suaves</b><br /><br />Vendrán lluvias suaves y el olor del suelo</span><br />
<div>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />y golondrinas sobrevolando con sonido tembloroso,<br /><br />y ranas en remansos de la noche cantando,<br /><br />y ciruelos en blancura trémula;<br /><br />Los petirrojos vestirán su fuego plumoso<br /><br />y silbarán caprichos en un alambre bajo de las cercas,<br /><br />y nadie sabrá nada de la guerra--a ninguno<br /><br />le importará cuando ella habrá acabado<br /><br />y no le molestaría a nadie, ni a ningún pájaro ni a ningún árbol,<br /><br />si toda la humanidad fuera eliminada.<br /><br />Y la mismísima Primavera, cuando ella amanece,<br /><br />apenas va a saber que hemos desaparecido.</span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">tr. EAC</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">E. A. Costa October 12, 2016 Granada, Nicaragua </span></i><br />
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">___________________________________________________</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">N.B.:(1)”Robins.../Whistling their whims
on a low fence-wire”: it</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">is a serious error to see this as a
matter of completing the fire/wire</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">rhyme in English--there is a
masterstroke of hidden metaphor and
</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">imagery here, widely unseen, in the
image of a robin as a G or treble
</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">clef on a musical staff--thus the “<b>low</b>
wire”--and perhaps, more hidden,</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">robins too as notes on the same staff; (2) Since Spring obviously still</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">exists abstractly for the poet, though</span></i><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"> asleep, one has moved the tense </span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">of the line into what is perhaps an even more </span></i><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">dramatic and indicative</span></i><br />
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"> present.</span></i></div>
</div>
Eugene Costahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15649417453647803409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8838538401732644352.post-40485699577584564952016-10-07T19:47:00.000-07:002016-10-14T13:19:16.326-07:00Pablo Neruda: El perezoso/ The Layabout<h2 class="western">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></h2>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Continuarán viajando cosas</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">de metal entre las estrellas,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">subirán hombres extenuados,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">violentarán la suave luna</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">y allí fundarán sus farmacias.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">En este tiempo de uva llena</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">el vino comienza su vida</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">entre el mar y las cordilleras.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">En Chile bailan las cerezas,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">cantan las muchachas oscuras</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">y en las guitarras brilla el agua.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">El sol toca todas las puertas</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">y hace milagros con el trigo.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">El primer vino es rosado,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">es dulce como un niño tierno,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">el segundo vino es robusto</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">como la voz de un marinero</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">y el tercer vino es un topacio,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">una amapola y un incendio.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Mi casa tiene mar y tierra,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">mi mujer tiene grandes ojos</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">color de avellana silvestre,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">cuando viene la noche el mar</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">se viste de blanco y de verde</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">y luego la luna en la espuma</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">sueña como novia marina.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">No quiero cambiar de planeta.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Pablo Neruda</span></b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /><br />
</span><br />
<i><b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Layabout</span></b></i><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">These metal
thingamajigs will</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">continue to
voyage among the stars,</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">undernourished men
will continue to ascend,</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">will violate
the soft and gentle moon,</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">and thereon
will plant their drugstores.</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">At this moment
of grapes</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">full to
bursting, wine is born</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">between sea and
cordilleras.</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">In Chile the
cherries are dancing,</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">dark-complexioned
girls sing,</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">and water is
glistening in guitars.</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The sun knocks
on every door</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">and works
miracles with wheat.</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The first wine
is rosé</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">and it is sweet
like a tender child;</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">the second is
robust,</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">like a sailor's
chest register,</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">and the third
is topaz,</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">poppy and
wildfire.</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">My house is
replete with sea and earth,</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">my woman has
the grandest eyes,</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">the color of
wild hazelnut,</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">and when night
arrives the sea</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">dresses in
white and green</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">and then the
moon in the foam</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">dreams as if my
mermaid bride.</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I haven't the
slightest desire to change planets.</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">tr. EAC</span></b></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></b></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">E. A. Costa October 7, 2016 Granada, Nicaragua</span></b></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">_____________________________________________________________</span></b></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">N.B.: (1)“chest register”--vox
pectoris (Latin), Voz de pecho (Spanish); (2) As one has seen
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">no one notice, the collection in which
“El perezoso” appears, Estravagario (1958), which marks</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">new departures of style for Neruda, has
many echos of the French Libertine poet, Marc-Antoine</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">Girard de Sant Amant (1594 – 1661),
the inventor of burlesque poetry in French. Indeed, the</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">title of the poem clearly refers to
Girard's “Le paresseux”, in which the poet, lazy and</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">melancholy, cannot rise from bed, a
theme which Neruda, reversing the tone, here changes to</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">the poet, completely content with the
bed that is his earth, especially in Chile, has not the</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">slightest inclination to rise into
space. The contemporary context is the so-called “Space Race”</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">between the United States and the
Soviet Union, which had already seen by 1958 three satellites</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">put into orbit, Sputnik, Sputnik II or
Muttnik by the Soviets and the anticlimactic Explorer</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">1 by the United States. In an excellent
essay, “The Spacecraft of Pablo Neruda and W. H.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">Auden,” by L. A. Cheever and D.
Ketterer (Contributions to the study of science fiction</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">and fantasy, ed. D. Ketterer, vol. 107,
2004, pp.239-246), the authors point out that Neruda</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">was certainly not against space travel.
He did, however, as chronicled in his autobiography,</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">adopt the same sardonic attitude as in
this poem when in the 1960's on a visit to the USSR</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">he met the cosmonaut Titov. "Commander,
did you see Chile when you were flying through</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">space, looking down on our planet?",
Neruda asked. Titov answered: "The most important</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">thing was to have seen Chile from
above, do you understand? I saw yellow mountains in
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">South America. They seemed to be very
high. Maybe that was Chile?" Neruda replied,</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">"Of course, that was Chile."
The obvious connection of El perezoso to Le paresseux,
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">of which Cheever and Ketterer are not
aware, and thus the context of burlesque, helps</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">put Neruda's attitude in context, which
is, simply, space travel yes, but a sensual earth</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">and Chile from the ground first and
last; (3) The contrast between the United States
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">“drugstore” and the traditional
farmacia (“pharmacy”) and apothecary's (botica)
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">was a subject of mirth and wonder in
Spain and in most of the Spanish-speaking world</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">by the 1950's, and still is. By the
1920's, the U.S. “drugstore”, as also seen in U.S. films,</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">had become a general retail outlet with
a pharmacy attached, with an almost mandatory</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">soda jerk and his phosphates and other
drinks, and all sorts of goods ranging from tobacco
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">through newspapers, magazines,
cosmetics, clothes, toys, and so forth. The Spanish
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">farmacia or botica, on the hand,
dispenses mainly or exclusively prescription and
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">non-prescription drugs. In Latin
America droguería may also be used but it is important</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">to note that in Spain a droguería
dispenses cleaning products, paints, and so forth,
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">not pharmaceuticals. Eventually the US
hybrid got its own Spanish word, el drugstore.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">The US Explorer I was launched on
January 31, 1958 and Neruda's unavoidably
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">burlesque play with farmacia clearly
alludes to the US participation in the Space Race,</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">since the Soviets were not known for
“drugstores.” It also confirms the connection with</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">Le paresseux, whose bedridden libertine
simply has no time or interest in the news of
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">the day, which in 1957-58 through most
of the world included the first steps into Outer
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">Space by the Soviets and later the US;
(4) <i>“en las guitarras brilla el agua” (</i><i>water
is</i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>glistening
in guitars): </i>This
is a supremely subtle visual metaphor, not recognized by
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">Cheever
and Ketterer above, nor anyone else in English or Spanish one knows of.
Hidden</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">under
the surface of a figure suggesting “the guitars are playing
fluidly like water”,</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">while
cherries in the trees dance in the breeze and dark girls sing, is an
image of</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">Chile--the
long string of space between sea and cordilleras—as the neck of a
guitar</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">pointing
south with the body being the Andes to the north. The "neck" of a guitar</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">in Spanish is, moreover, el mastil, "pole or mast", clinching the nautical</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">reference. Thus<i> el agua</i>
or the sea is marked </span><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">as both the guitar's music and its string(s).</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">The image is obvious in any colored </span><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">satellite
map, not available </span><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">to
Neruda in 1958, </span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">but brilliantly intuited from the </span><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">geography. This is
also clearly </span><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">what
Neruda was getting </span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">at with Titov, who seems </span><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">not to have got the play,
but </span><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">whose
answer confirms </span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">Neruda's Chile as the neck of a guitar. Titov indeed saw
Chile from </span><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">above,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">but failed to see the subtle visual metaphor in his poem, which,
importantly,</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">is
a dual image of Chile from space and on the ground. The combination
of
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">marvellous
prosody fit to the brilliantly executed double visual perspective,
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">all
in the context of revolutionary technological events in the news—and
still news--</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">makes
this particular poem one of the most striking and underestimated
poems in</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">Neruda's
corpus, which in a way Neruda himself devilishly footnotes in his</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">autobiography's
mention of the conversation with Titov. The old science fiction
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">saw
about the so-called Great Wall of China being visible from outer
space was never</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">accurate.
For one thing, as all scholars of China's history and geography
always</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">knew,
there is not, and never was, one “Great Wall”, nor were the
different sections</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">“great”
in size, so no parts are more visible than any other large earthly</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">fortifications.
Here, as an added bonus, Neruda replaces that fictional Great Wall
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">with
the great and actually visible shoestring of Chile, as much a
terrestrial feature</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">as
a space on a map. Considering the lame effort at poetic metaphor
that the US</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="ext-gen85"></a>astronaut
made in the first moon landing--”That's one small
step for (a) man, one</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">giant leap for mankind.”--one might
argue that Neruda's El perezoso is the first</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">great poem of actual, as opposed to
fictional, space exploration, and not without</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">its own warning irony.</span></div>
</div>
Eugene Costahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15649417453647803409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8838538401732644352.post-44312327049279694132016-10-02T18:03:00.000-07:002016-10-02T18:28:16.463-07:00Memoirs of Altazor/ Memorias de Altazor<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> “Qué me importa el nombre de la
nada...”</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> Vicente
Huidobro</i><b> </b>
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Actually I was
aiming to escape from the past</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">into the present.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">But things
immediately went awry.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The acceleration
from zero to non-zero</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">is measureless.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I had not planned
on that</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">and I fell forever
into the post-modern.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">That will have
been a long time ago.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">But it doesn't
matter.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">You will grasp the
irony is eminently testudinal.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">On the planet
Lepus, as few earthlings know,</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">they have an
annual festival in which they cover</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">their
heads with tortoise shells and stand motionless</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">in
the streets chorusing, “σπεῦδε βραδέως ”,</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">which in their
tongue means, “Hurry up slow.”</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The tortoise
shells have two holes on top,</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">for the Lepusians
have very long ears.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Some people think
they look like asses</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">but others think
they resemble Easter bunnies.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">But it doesn't
matter.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">If they stand pat,
they will have been always too late.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">And if not, they
will never ever catch up to Altazor—he left too early.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Understand, I am
not mocking anyone</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">or trying to be
paradoxical, but what can I say?</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Logic is long and
life very short,</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">unless you be
thoroughly bored with it.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">And what could be
more boring than</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">being forever
either pure matter or pure energy?</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">E. A. Costa</span></b></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="tran2"></a><i><b>Memorias de
Altazor </b></i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><b><br /></b><br /> “Qué me importa el
nombre de la nada...”<br /><br /> Vicente Huidobro </i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="tran3"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="tran5"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="tran6"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="tran7"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="tran8"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="tran9"></a>
<i><br /><br />En realidad yo estaba aspirando a escaparme del pasado<br /><br />al
presente.<br /><br />Pero inmediatamente las cosas se torcieron.<br /><br />La
aceleración desde cero a más que cero es inconmensurable.<br /><br />Yo
no había pensado en eso<br /><br />y sin querer me caí para siempre en
el tiempo postmoderno.</i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="tran10"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="tran11"></a>
<i>Esto sucedió hace mucho tiempo.<br /><br />Pero no es importante.</i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="tran12"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="tran13"></a>
<i><br />Ustedes comprenderán que la ironía es sumamente
testudinal.<br /><br />Sobre el planeta Lepus, que conocen pocos
terrícolas,<br /><br />tienen una fiesta anual en la cual cubren las
cabezas<br /><br />con caparazones de tortuga y permanecen inmóviles</i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">en las calles cantando, "σπεῦδε
βραδέως ”,</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="tran17"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="tran18"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="tran20"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="tran22"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="tran23"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="tran24"></a>
<i><br />que es en su lengua, "Se apresúrate despacio."<br /><br />Los
caparazones de tortuga tienen dos agujeros en la cima de
ellos,<br /><br />porque los Lepusianos tienen las orejas muy
largas.<br /><br />Algunas personas piensan que ellos se parecen burros,<br /><br />otras que se parecen conejitos de Pascua.<br /><br />Pero
no es importante.<br /><br />Si permanecen inmóviles, llegarán siempre
muy tarde.<br /><br />Y si no, nunca jamás alcanzarán a Altazor—él
salió demasiado temprano.</i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="tran25"></a><i><br />Por favor,
entienda, no me estoy burlando de nadie</i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="tran26"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="tran27"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="tran28"></a>
<i>y no estoy tratando de ser paradójico.<br /><br />¿Pero qué puedo
decir? La lógica es larga y muy corta es la vida,<br /><br />a menos que
ustedes sean aburridos de ella.<br /><br />Y qué podría ser más pesado
que ser por siempre<br /><br />la materia o energía pura? </i>
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Tr. EAC</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">E. A. Costa October 2, 2016
Granada, Nicaragua</span></i></div>
Eugene Costahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15649417453647803409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8838538401732644352.post-43229012563923289212016-09-30T21:33:00.000-07:002016-09-30T21:33:48.948-07:00Pablo Neruda: Amor/ Love<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Tantos días, hay tantos días<br />viéndote tan firme y tan
cerca,<br />¿como los pago? ¿con que pago?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">La primavera sanguinaria<br />de los bosques se despertó,<br />salen
los zorros de sus cuevas,<br />las serpientes beben rocío,<br />y yo voy
contigo en las hojas,<br />entre los pinos y el silencio,<br />y me
pregunto si esta dicha<br />debo pagarla como y cuando.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">De todas las cosas que he visto<br />a ti quiero seguirte viendo,<br />de
todo lo que he tocado,<br />solo tu piel quiero seguir tocando:<br />amo
tu risa de naranja,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">me gustas cuando estás dormida.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="more-5464"></a>Que voy a hacerle, amor, amada,<br />no se
como quieren los otros,<br />no se como se amaron antes,<br />yo vivo
viéndote y amándote<br />naturalmente enamorado.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Me gustas cada tarde más.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">¿Donde estará? Voy preguntando<br />si tus ojos
desaparecen.<br />¡Cuanto tarda!, pienso y me ofendo.<br />Me siento
pobre, tonto y triste,<br />y llegas y eres una ráfaga<br />que vuela
desde los duraznos.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Por eso te amo y no por eso,<br />por tantas cosas y tan pocas,<br />y
así debe ser el amor<br />entrecerrado y general,<br />particular y
pavoroso,<br />embanderando y enlutado,<br />florido como las estrellas<br />y
sin medida como un beso.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Pablo Neruda</span></b><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /><br />
</span><br />
<i><b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Love</span></b></i><br />
<i><b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></b></i>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; page-break-before: always;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">So many
days—there are so many days</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">seeing you substantial and near.</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">How to pay for them? With what pay?</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="tran1"></a><i><br />The
red-fanged spring</i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">of the forests awoke:</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">foxes sally from hollows,</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">serpents drink dew,</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">and I go forth with you through the
leaves</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">between pines and silence,</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">wondering if somehow, someday</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I must pay for this happiness.</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="tran2"></a><i><br />Of all the
things that I have seen</i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I want to keep seeing you,</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">of all I have touched,</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I want to keep touching your skin:</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="tran3"></a><i>I love your
laugh of orange,</i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I cherish you asleep.</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br />Love, beloved—what to
consummate?</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I know not how others love</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">or how they were loved before:</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I live seeing and loving you--</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">artlessly enamored.</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br />I delight in you more each
afternoon.</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="tran6"></a><i><br />Where will
she be? I keep asking</i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">if your eyes disappear.<br />How late!
I think and take offence.</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="tran8"></a><i>I feel wretched
and stupid and sad</i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">and you arrive and are a burst of
hues</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">flying through the air from the
peaches.</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br />Therefore and not therefore I
love you,</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">for so many things and so few,</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">for love must be so,</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">half-closed and typical,</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">particular and frightful,</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">bedecked in streamers and dressed in
mourning,</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">flowered like the stars</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>and measureless
like a kiss. </i>
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Tr. EAC</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">E. A. Costa
September 30, 2016 Granada, Nicaragua</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">____________________________________________________</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">N.B. There seems almost an echo, especially obvious in the next</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">to last stanza, of the poem "The Quiet Girl" </span></i><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><i>静女 from the Odes</i></span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black;"><i><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">of Bei in the ancient Chinese Book of Songs, which Neruda may have</span></i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black;"><i><span style="color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">known in translation. </span></i></span></div>
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Eugene Costahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15649417453647803409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8838538401732644352.post-15726610257998415162016-09-27T20:18:00.000-07:002016-09-28T14:07:16.184-07:00Interrogatories/ Interrogatorios<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> </i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> "Le sens est dans le problème lui-même."</i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> Gilles Deleuze</i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Does everything that exists have a
name?</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">And what about things that don't?</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">How old is your childhood?</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Have you aged like cheese or as fine
wine?</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">How many eyes do you see with when you
dream?</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">One? Two? Are you seeing with rods or
cones?</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Does breaking a broken heart mend it--</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">only to be broken again?</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">E. A. Costa</span></b></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Interrogatorios</span></b></i><br />
<i><b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></b></i>
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b> </b> "El sentido está en el problema sí mismo."</span></i><br />
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></i>
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Gilles Deleuze </span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="tran1"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="tran2"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="tran3"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="tran4"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="tran5"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="tran6"></a>
<i>¿Tiene todo que existe un nombre?<br />¿Y en cuanto a las cosas
que no existen?<br /><br />¿Cuántos años tiene tu niñez?<br />¿Has
envejecido como queso o como vino fino?<br /><br />¿Con cuántos ojos
miras cuando estás soñando?<br />¿Uno? ¿Dos? ¿Estás usando los
bastones o los conos?<br /><br />¿Si rompes un corazón roto, es él
reparado?</i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>¿Sólo para ser roto una vez más? </i>
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Tr. EAC</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">E. A. Costa September 27, 2016 Granada, Nicaragua</span></i></div>
Eugene Costahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15649417453647803409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8838538401732644352.post-38078631379061862062016-09-23T14:03:00.000-07:002016-09-23T14:23:44.111-07:00Outis (To Nikos Kazantzakis)/ Outis (a Nikos Kazantzakis)<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Keeping
to self</span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">in
haunted halls</span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">under
the South Pole</span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">where
all is written</span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">before
it is written</span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">where
all has been said before</span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">to be
met again in footprints</span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">undulating
in the icy air</span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">saying
nothing</span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">saying
everything</span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">saying
everywhere</span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">what
there is to say</span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">then
going his way</span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">no one</span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">nobody</span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">no man
or woman</span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">no god
or goddess</span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">no king
or slave</span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">no
horse or hound</span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">no mite
or prodigy</span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">whose
night sings sunrise</span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">ever
disappears.</span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>E. A.
Costa </b><i>(from “Odysseus”, 2009 to present)</i></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><b>Outis (a Nikos
Kazantzakis)</b><br /><br />Mantiene la distancia</i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>en pasillos encantados</i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>debajo del Polo Sur</i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>dónde todo es escrito</i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="tran2"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="tran3"></a>
antes de que fuera escrito<br /><br />donde todo ha sido dicho
antes<br /><br />para ser encontrado de nuevo en huellas</i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="tran4"></a>ondulantes en el
aire helado<br /><br />diciendo nada</i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>diciendo todo</i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>diciendo por todas partes</i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>lo que hay para decir</i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>y entonces siguiendo su camino<br /><br />porque
ningún nadie</i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><br />
</i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>ni hombre ni mujer</i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>ni dios ni diosa</i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>ni rey ni esclavo</i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>ni caballo ni perro</i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>ni ácaro ni monstruo</i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><br />
</i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>ningún don nadie</i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>cuya noche canta la salida del sol</i></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>desaparece
nunca.
</i></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><br />
</i></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="border-bottom: 1pt solid rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in 0in 0.03in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>
Tr. EAC</i></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="border-bottom: 1pt solid rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in 0in 0.03in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="border-bottom: 1pt solid rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in 0in 0.03in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>E. A. Costa September 23, 2016 Granada, Nicaragua</i></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="border-bottom: 1pt solid rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in 0in 0.03in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>_________________________________________________________</i></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="border-bottom: 1pt solid rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in 0in 0.03in;">
<i style="color: white; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: black;">N.B.: Outis/ <span lang="grc-GR">οὔτις—ancient Greek, “no one”, “nobody”, Latin “nemo”/ griego antiguo, “nadie”/”ninguno”</span></span><span lang="grc-GR"><span style="background-color: black;">, latín “nemo”.</span></span></span></i></div>
Eugene Costahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15649417453647803409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8838538401732644352.post-76790929407355313902016-09-21T21:24:00.000-07:002016-09-22T07:02:31.078-07:00Three Days In September/ Tres jornadas en septiembre<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> “<i>...circuivi terram
et perambulavi ea.”</i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> The Book of Job </i>
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Tuesday:</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Torch of
Liberty</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">relays through
streets</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of wall-to-wall
Nicas</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in Granada. <i>Quo
vadis</i>?</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Whither thou
goest?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
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<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Thursday:</span></i></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">As he steps off
the bus</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in Liberia,
Costa Rica, the Torch,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">still burning, is relayed through</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">a crowd of
Ticos. <i>Unde venis</i>?</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Whence do you
come?</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Saturday:</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">On the way back between volcanoes,</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> el Rincón de la Vieja and Mombacho,</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">from Liberia to Granada, sorceress
Rain,</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">born in sudden thunderclaps,</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">has painted the countryside animated
emerald.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">E. A. Costa</span></b></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Tres jornadas en septiembre</i></span></b></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><br />
</i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> " ... de
recorrer la tierra y de andar por ella."</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><br />
</i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> Libro de Job
</i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><br />
</i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><br />
</i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">El martes:</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><br />
</i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>La Antorcha de Libertad pasa por
relevo</i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>por las calles de Granada llenas de
Nicas</i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>de pared a pared. ¿Quo vadis?</i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>¿A dónde vas?</i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><br />
</i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">El jueves:</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><br />
</i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Como él se baja del autobús</i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>en Liberia, la Antorcha, todavía
ardiente,</i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>se transmite por una muchedumbre</i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>de Ticos. ¿Unde venis?</i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>¿De dónde vienes?</i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><br />
</i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">El sábado:</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><br />
</i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>A la vuelta entre los dos volcanes,</i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>El Rincón de la Vieja y Mombacho,</i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>de Liberia a Granada, la bruja Lluvia,</i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>nacida con truenos y relámpagos,</i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>ha pintado el
campo de color esmeralda animada.</i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><br />
</i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Tr. EAC</i></span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: black;"><i>E. A. Costa September 22, 2016 Granada, Nicaragua</i></span></span><br />
<i style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">_____________________________________________</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">N.B: (1) “circuivi terram
et perambulavi ea”( Latin Vulgate):</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>“From going to and fro in the
earth, and from walking up and</i></span></div>
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<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">down in it. “( King James); (2)
“The Torch of Liberty” (La Antorcha</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">de la Libertad or La Tea
Centroamericana) is the torch, ignited</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>in San Salvador, carried on foot and
by relay from Guatemala to
</i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">Costa Rica celebrating the
independence of Central America from Spain.</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">This year 12,000 Nicaraguan
students participated in the relay for</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">500 kilometers from the border with
Honduras to the frontier with</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">Costa Rica at Penas Blancas; (3)
“Nica” is the common expression</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">for Nicaraguans in Nicaragua and
Costa Rica. It is both masculine </span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">and feminine. ''Tico"/"Tica" is the common term for Costa Rican</span></i><i style="background-color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;">.</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">It derives from the diminutive
suffix—ico/a—frequently used </span></i><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">by Costa</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"> Ricans. The Costa Ricans
came to the aid of Nicaragua during </span></i><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">the war</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"> against the United States' filibustero, William Walker. Nicas heard</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">the Costa Rican soldiers calling one another
“hermaniticos” (dear little brothers).</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">Thereafter they began to call all
Costa Ricans “Ticos”, which the Costa Ricans</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">also began using for themselves. (4)
“Liberia”, city of 70,000 on the main</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">highway an hour southwest of the
frontier with Nicaragua at Penas Blancas;</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">(5) El Rincón de la Vieja/ The Old
Woman's Corner is a live volcano about fifteen miles</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">from Liberia and dominates the view
northeast, as the volcano Mombacho</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">dominates Granada to the southwest.
The “Old Woman” is a legended recluse who as a</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">young girl went to live by the
volcano after her father threw her suitor</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">into the crater.</span></i></div>
Eugene Costahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15649417453647803409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8838538401732644352.post-50183297090784227842016-09-13T11:44:00.000-07:002016-09-13T12:26:49.376-07:00William Butler Yeats: No Second Troy/ Ninguna Troya segunda<br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Why should I blame her that she filled my days </span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">With misery, or that she would of late </span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Have taught to ignorant men most violent ways, </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Or hurled the little streets upon the great, </span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Had they but courage equal to desire? </span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">What could have made her peaceful with a mind </span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">That nobleness made simple as a fire, </span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">With beauty like a tightened bow, a kind </span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">That is not natural in an age like this, </span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Being high and solitary and most stern? </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Why, what could she have done, being what she is? </span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Was there another Troy for her to burn?</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">William Butler Yeats</span></b></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></b></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></b></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><b>Ninguna Troya segunda</b></i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">¿Por qué debo culpar a ella</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">porque llenó mi vida con tristeza?</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i style="background-color: black;"><br /></i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">¿O porque hace poco les hubiera impartido</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">a hombres brutos vias las más violentas?</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i style="background-color: black;"><br /></i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">¿O porque lanzó las callecitas contra los bulevares--</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">si tenían ellas el coraje iqual al su deseo?</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i style="background-color: black;"><br /></i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">¿Qué podría haber apaciguado a ella?</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i style="background-color: black;"><br /></i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Con una mente que la nobleza hizo</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">tan ingenua como fuego,</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i style="background-color: black;"><br /></i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Con belleza como un arco armado,</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">que es contra naturaleza en nuestra época:</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i style="background-color: black;"><br /></i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> alta, solitaria, implacable,</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i style="background-color: black;"><br /></i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">y como tal--</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i style="background-color: black;"><br /></i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">¿Qué otra cosa podría ella haber hecho--</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i style="background-color: black;"><br /></i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> ¿Había otra Troya para atravesar y incendiar?</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i style="background-color: black;"><br /></i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Tr. EAC</span></b></i></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i style="background-color: black;"><br /></i></span></div>
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<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">E. A. Costa September 13, 2016 Granada, Nicaragua</span></i></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i style="background-color: black;">_______________________________________________________________</i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>N.B.: The subject is Maud Gonne (later Maud Gonne MacBride-- Maud Nic Ghoinn Bean Mac Giolla Bhríghde), English-born actress, Irish revolutionary and suffragette to whom Yeats proposed marriage several times unsuccessfully. Note too that the title clearly bears the ironic cryptotype, “No second try”, of which Yeats, proposing at least, had several. She famously told him, when he said he was not happy without her, “Oh yes, you are, because you make beautiful poetry out of </i></span><i style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">what you call your unhappiness and are happy in that. Marriage would be such dull affair. Poets should never marry. The world should thank me for not marrying you.”</i></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: x-small;"><i style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></i></span></div>
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Eugene Costahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15649417453647803409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8838538401732644352.post-42737088393551920672016-09-10T22:13:00.000-07:002016-09-11T10:53:54.285-07:00Paul Valéry: Hélène/ Helen (English translation)<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Azur! c’est moi… Je viens des grottes de la
mort<br />Entendre l’onde se rompre aux degrés sonores,<br />Et je
revois les galères dans les aurores<br />Ressusciter de l’ombre au
fil des rames d’or.<br /><br />Mes solitaires mains appellent les
monarques<br />Dont la barbe de sel amusait mes doigts purs ;<br />Je
pleurais. Ils chantaient leurs triomphes obscurs<br />Et les golfes
enfuis aux poupes de leurs barques.<br /><br />J’entends les conques
profondes et les clairons<br />Militaires rythmer le vol des
avirons ;<br />Le chant clair des rameurs enchaîne le
tumulte,<br /><br />Et les Dieux, à la proue héroïque exaltés<br />Dans
leur sourire antique et que l’écume insulte,<br />Tendent vers moi
leurs bras indulgents et sculptés.</span><br />
<h1 class="western" lang="fr-FR">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="firstHeading1"></a><span style="font-size: small;">Paul
Valéry</span></span></h1>
<div>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div lang="fr-FR">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><b style="background-color: black;"><i>Helen</i></b></span></div>
<div lang="fr-FR">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><br />
</i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Blue of sea and sky! It is I,
Helen, come again</i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>from the grottoes of death--</i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>to hear the wave break into measured
song</i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>and see again the black ships at dawn</i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>reborn out of the darkness to the score</i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>of their golden oars.</i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><br />
</i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>My lonely hands call to these kings</i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>whose salt beards used to amuse my
virgin fingers.</i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>I was weeping and they chanting the
dark triumphs</i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>fled astern their ships.</i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><br />
</i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>I hear again the low-voiced conch</i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>and war trumpets beat time for the
flying oars--</i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>hear again the blue-skied song of the
rowers</i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>enfettering the chaos of the storm.</i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><br />
</i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>And these gods stock still and proud on
heroic prows,</i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>in archaic smiles and mocked by foaming
sea--</i></span></div>
<div lang="fr-FR" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><i>these gods
wave their sculptured, indulgent arms to me!</i></span></div>
<div lang="fr-FR" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><br />
</i></span></div>
<div lang="fr-FR" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><b style="background-color: black;"><i>Tr. EAC</i></b></span></div>
<div lang="fr-FR" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div lang="fr-FR" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: black;"><i>E. A. Costa 11 septiembre 2016 Granada, Nicaragua </i></span></span><b style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><i>____________________________________________</i></b></div>
<div lang="fr-FR" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: black;"><b>N.B.: </b>The imperfects used by</span><b style="background-color: black;"> </b></span><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Valéry in the second stanza</span></i></span></div>
<div lang="fr-FR" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>put Helen at Troy watching the arrival of the Greek Fleet</i></span></span></div>
<div lang="fr-FR" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>and, after Homer, lonely and torn about her plight. "Archaic</i></span></span></div>
<div lang="fr-FR" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Smile" is a mysterious and conventionalized smile on the</i></span></span></div>
<div lang="fr-FR" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Greek sculptures of the Archaic Period, BC 600-480.</i></span></span></div>
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<i><br /></i>Eugene Costahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15649417453647803409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8838538401732644352.post-41824922728381592402016-09-09T14:27:00.000-07:002016-09-09T14:54:33.706-07:00La Paz (Dedicado a Evo Morales y al pueblo de Bolivia)<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> “Los principios fundamentales
del movimiento</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> indígena es la vida, es la
Madre Tierra y la paz”. </i>
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Evo Morales</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Sobre el salar alto boliviano</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">un miembro de la tribu hace conos de
cristal</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">que se paran como montañas en el
páramo.<br /><br />Su cuerpo es litio y su presencia eléctrica</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="tran1"></a>da lugar a los
vientos y las aguas del nuevo mundo.<br /><br />A taumaturgos hermanos
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">cuyas tareas son más pequeñas</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">les digo:</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />mantenganse humildes como aquel
dios</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">sobre el salar alto que modela las
aguas y el aire</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">y cuyo aliento es el viento... </span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>E. A. Costa</b></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: black;"><b><i>E. A. Costa 9 septiembre 2016 Granada, Nicaragua</i></b></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">_____________________________________________</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">NB: Una versión sólo ligeramente diferente y en
inglés de 2011 </span><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">está</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"> disponible aquí, con una gráfica:</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"> http://goodsoldiersandcloselywatchedtrains.blogspot.com/2011/01/la-paz.html</span></div>
Eugene Costahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15649417453647803409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8838538401732644352.post-36069187207933263672016-09-01T19:54:00.000-07:002016-09-14T19:29:40.199-07:00Double Ballad/ Balata Doble<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> “<i>Et
nous, les os, devenons cendre et pouldre...”</i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> François Villon</i><br /><i> </i>
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">There are poems of
flesh.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">There are poems of
blood.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">There are poems of
muscle and cartilage.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Stronger still are
sinewy poems drawn taut as bowstrings,
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">releasing darts at a word.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">But the greatest
are skeletons,</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">marking the stress
lines of all tongues and ages,</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">turning time and
gravity on their head and enduring erect and defiant,</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">mocking unanchored
heights, raising lowest high--</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">they are the
coral, they are the bone on which grows and scaffolds</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">the flesh, the
blood, the muscle and cartilage, the sinew and its arrows.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">E. A. Costa</span></b></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<b><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Balada doble</span></i></b></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> “Et nous, les
os, devenons cendre et pouldre...”</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> François
Villon</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="tran1"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="tran2"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="tran3"></a>
Hay poemas de carne.<br /><br />Hay poemas de sangre.<br /><br />Hay poemas
de músculo y cartílago.<br /><br />Más fuertes aún son poemas
nervudos,</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="tran5"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="tran8"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="tran9"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="tran10"></a>
tensados como una cuerda del arco<br /><br />y listos disparar dardos con
una palabra.<br /><br />Pero los más grandes son los esqueletos,<br /><br />que
dibujan las líneas de estrés de todas las lenguas y
épocas,<br /><br />poniendo tiempo y gravedad patas para arriba y
permaneciendo erguidos y desafiantes,<br /><br />burlando de alturas sin
anclar, levantando lo más bajo al nivel más alto--<br /><br />ellos son
el coral, ellos son el hueso sobre el cual crecen y cuelgan como
andamio<br /><br />la carne, la sangre, el músculo y cartílago, el
tendón y sus flechas.</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">
Tr. EAC</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">E. A. Costa September 1, 2016 San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua</span></i></div>
Eugene Costahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15649417453647803409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8838538401732644352.post-11379121934844184912016-08-30T21:48:00.000-07:002016-09-01T16:00:55.199-07:00Grapsus Grapsus Omnimobilis<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> “<i>They seem to be able to run in any of four directions; </i>
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> but more than this, perhaps because of their rapid</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> reaction time, they appear to read the mind of their
hunter.”</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> John Steinbeck</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">On the piddock-pocked gray rocks at low
tide</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">they scamper in sunlight, poking into
every pool.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The young ones are black-lacquered,
with only pincers pink.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">They vibrate with electric energy, like
solar panels</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">in motion, glinting with voracious
purpose,</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">moving instantaneously in all
directions—sideways, forward, back.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Their game is algae.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Have you ever seen a red rock crab
jump?</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">They approach the abyss all eyes,</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">halt a microsecond and from tiptoes of eight legs</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">execute <i>un</i> <i>grand jeté</i>
like four prima ballerinas</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">flying through the air under a single
carapace of silken bronze--</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">en avant</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">à la seconde</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">en arriére</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">en tournant...</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">They
seem a crowd of <i>discoboloi </i>by
Myron,
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">launching
themselves and rising up to launch again in one throw.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Give them a few
more eons and they will be birds.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Is it
featherbrained to wonder how to read the flying mind</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">of a creature so
spontaneously omnidirectional and sighted</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">it is reading your mind long before you yourself notice?</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">E. A. Costa</span></b></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
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<i><b>Grapsus Grapsus Omnimobilis</b><br /><br /> "Parecen poder correr en
cualquiera de cuatro</i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> direcciones;</i></span><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> pero más que esto, quizás
debido</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> a su tiempo de reacción rápido,</span></i><i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> ellos aparecen</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> leer la mente
de su cazador.”</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /> John Steinbeck<br /><br />En la marea baja</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">sobre
las rocas grises</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">picadas por los barrenos</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">ellos corretean en la luz
del sol,</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">hurgando en cada charca.<br /><br />Los jóvenes son laqueados
en negro,</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">con pinzas rosadas.<br /><br />Ellos vibran con la energía
eléctrica,</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">como paneles solares móviles, destellando con motivo
voraz,</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">y moviendo en cada dirección-- hacia de lado, hacia adelante,
hacia atrás...<br /><br />Su presa es algas.<br /><br />¿Alguna vez has
visto un cangrejo de roca rojo saltar?<br /><br />Se acercan al abismo
todo ojos,</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">paran por un microsegundo</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">y de puntillas con ocho piernas</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">ejecutan un grand jeté magnífico,</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">como cuatro primeras bailarinas </span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">que vuelan por el aire bajo un carapacho de seda bronceada--<br /><br />en
avant</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> à la seconde</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> en arriére</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> en tournant...<br /><br />Parecen ser
una muchedumbre de discóbolos de Mirón,</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>lanzándose y elevándose
para lanzar en un tiro.<br /><br />¡Dales unas eras más y serán
pájaros!<br /><br />¿Es disparatado preguntarse cómo sea posible leer </i><i>la mente volante</i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">de una criatura tan espontáneamente omnidireccional
y tan vidente</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">que ella lee tu mente antes de que la sepas tú
mismo?</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><br /><b>Tr. EAC</b> </i>
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></b></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">E. A. Costa August 31, 2016 San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua </span></b></i><i><b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">______________________________________________________</span></b></i></div>
<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">NB: (1) Grapsus
Grapsus: the red rock crab, native to the Pacific Coast</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">from Southern
California to Chile and rife on the beach rocks of Nicaragua,</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">providing to the patient eye much instruction and entertainment.
“Grapsus”</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">is a Latinized form of the Greek “grapsaios”
(crab). Also known in English</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">as Sally Lightfoot, in Spanish as the
zayapa (Galápagos) and abuete negro.</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">The quotation from John
Steinbeck is from The Log From The Sea Of Cortez,</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">an account of an
expedition with his friend, the marine biologist Ed Ricketts.</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">It is
curious Steinbeck mentions only four directions. Had he never seen
them</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">jump? Which jumping adds two more. (2) Piddocks, or Pholadidae,
are</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">bivalves that bore through rock and are responsible for the many
round holes</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">in beach rock. In Spanish they are known as barrenos, to
wit, “drills” or </span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">“boreholes”; (3) On Myron's Discobolos or
Discus Thrower, who throws</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">and returns to throwing in one
aesthetic moment, see Lucian of Samosata,</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">Philopseudes sive
Incredulus (the Liar), 18; (4) “Omnimobile” is now an</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">accepted
word in robotics, applied to movement of devices on universal</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">wheels,
for example; (5) Crabs of course have five pairs of legs but one</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">pair
are pincers.</span></i></div>
Eugene Costahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15649417453647803409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8838538401732644352.post-26231034890723710582016-08-06T22:54:00.001-07:002016-08-06T22:54:42.761-07:00God's Gift/ Regalo de Dios<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> “Nous doit aussi souvenir que Satan a ses miracles.”*</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> Jean Calvin</span></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Written across the windshield</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">in white block letters nearly obscuring</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">any driver's vision:
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">REGALO DE DIOS</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">It's a new Toyota Tacoma,
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">silver sky metallic, parked</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">and driverless by the beach.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">So far so good. Gift of God. Why not?</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Questions remain: highways &
bridges,</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">gasoline, gasoline stations,
maintenance,</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">repairs, traffic jams, air and noise
pollution,</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">collisions and other accidents, parking
lots,</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">billboards, motels, automobile loans</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">and interest, traffic signs and fines,</span></div>
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more and more speed...</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">TOOT! TOOT!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">(with other et ceteras too many to
enumerate):</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">All REGALOS DE DIOS?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Which God is that?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>E. A. Costa</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><b>Regalo de Dios </b>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><i> “Nous doit aussi souvenir que Satan a ses miracles.”*</i></span></div>
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<i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> Jean Calvin</span></i></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="tran0"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="tran1"></a>
Texto escrito a través del parabrisas<br />en letras mayúsculas
grandes y blancas,</i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="tran2"></a>casi obstruyendo la
visión de cualquier conductor:</i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>REGALO DE DIOS <br /><br />Es un nuevo
Toyota Tacoma,<br />de
color cielo de plata metálico</i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="tran5"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="tran6"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="tran7"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="tran9"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="tran11"></a>
aparcado cerca la playa.<br /><br />Hasta ahora todo va bien. Regalo de
Dios. ¿Por qué no?<br /><br />Preguntas permanecen: carreteras y
puentes,<br />gasolina, gasolineras, mantenimiento,<br />reparación,
embotellamientos, contaminación del aire,<br />colisiones y otros
accidentes, aparcamientos,<br />moteles, vallas publicitarias,
préstamos de automóvil<br />e interés, señales y multas de tráfico,
peatones reducidos</i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="tran12"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="tran13"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="tran14"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="tran15"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="tran16"></a>
a meros obstáculos a más rapidez...<br /><br />¡BOCINAZO!
¡BOCINAZO!<br /><br />(con otras etc. etc. etc. demasiado para
enumerar):<br /><br />¿Todos REGALOS DE DIOS?<br /><br />¿Cuál Dios es
esto?
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Tr. EAC</i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>E. A. Costa August 7, 2016 San Juan de Sur, Nicaragua</i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>* "We must also remember that Satan has his miracles."/ "Debemos</i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>recordar también que Satanás tiene sus milagros."</i></span></div>
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