Category: Summer 2009 Poetry
Juan Gelman’s Exile
Ilan Stavans Juan Gelman’s poetry bears witness to the bankruptcy of Argentine morality. There’s a sense of urgency in it. Rather than
An Appreciation: The Translator in Eight Movements — and a Coda
David Unger An Appreciation: The Translator in Eight Movements — and a Coda I. Hardie St. Martin was a remarkably inventive translator, who knew
The Mystic Warrior
Paul Pines The Mystic Warrior From where you sit Coatlique war is a flower spreading its petals over the land, a nuclear blossom. Pick me as you
Two Juans: A Knowing Beyond Knowledge
Paul Pines Two Juans: A Knowing Beyond Knowledge “. . . i recognize your face\ like memory in every face . . .” Argentine poet Juan Gelman
The Swimming Pool at Villa Grimaldi
Martín Espada The Swimming Pool at Villa Grimaldi Santiago, Chile Beyond the gate where the convoys spilled their cargo of blindfolded
DISAPPEARED/DESAPARECIDO
George Evans DISAPPEARED/DESAPARECIDO for Juan Gelman Anticipating someone might claim him one day the gravediggers left their ropes
No-Man’s-Land
Daisy Zamora No–Man’s–Land to the poets I love We are a minefield of clarity, and whoever crosses the barbed wire comes
A Photograph of Juan Gelman Dressed to the Nines
Sergio Ramírez A Photograph of Juan Gelman Dressed to the Nines I have seen the figure of Juan Gelman in formal attire bowing gracefully over a
Archilochos in Baghdad
Doug Anderson Archilochos in Baghdad There is less noise now except in your head. The smirking rich have gone home with their take and left you
from Sleeping with Sappho
Stephen Vincent from Sleeping with Sappho 36. Andrew The joker dropped Melissa a dead letter ] Out of Delphi — without a prayer Indelicate Jane