Category Archives: Translations

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Primavera Amarilla por Juan Ramón Jiménez

… Abril venía, lleno todo de flores amarillas: amarillo el arroyo, amarillo el vallado, la colina, el cementerio de los niños, el huerto aquel, donde el amor vivía. El sol ungía de amarillo el mundo, con sus luces caídas; ¡ay, … Continue reading

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from Poesia en verso (1917 – 20) por Juan Ramón Jiménez, 1

… 1 Alrededor de la copa dél árbol alto, mis sueños están volando. Son palomas, coronados de luces puras que, al volar, derraman música ¡Cómo entran, cómo salen del árbol solo! !Cómo me enredan en oro! … … Around the … Continue reading

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The Story of the Rabbit and the Coyote. Illustrated by Francisco Toledo, Adapted by Gloria and Víctor de la Cruz

… .. … I bought Cuento del Conejo y el Coyote illustrated by the artist Francisco Toledo when I was in Oaxaca in 1999 finishing up my novel. I’d first seen Toledo’s work about twelve years earlier when I was … Continue reading

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The Beacons (Les Phares) by Charles Baudelaire

… Les Phares Rubens, fleuve d’oubli, jardin de la paresse, Oreiller de chair fraîche où l’on ne peut aimer, Mais où la vie afflue et s’agite sans cesse, Comme l’air dans le ciel et la mer dans la mer; Léonard … Continue reading

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Three Lovely Poems with Rotting Carcasses in Them: Baudelaire, Eberhart & Yorty

… Charles Baudelaire wrote Une Charogne to his lover, Jeanne Duval, a Haitian actress, who met him when she left Haiti for France in 1842. Whether she died sooner or lived longer than the poet is in dispute, though both … Continue reading