Juan Gelman

Juan Gelman: (1930–2014), the most read, influential, and renowned Latin American poet of our times, published more than 30 books of poetry and won countless awards including the Cervantes Prize (2007), the top literary honor for Spanish language literature. Both a literary and moral paradigm within and beyond Argentina, he worked as a journalist and translator, spent many years exiled in Europe and Latin America, and remained an ardent critic of imperialist politics and human rights violations throughout his life. The poems here belong to his collection Relaciones /Relations (Buenos Aires, 1971–1973).