Sé que es Mictlantecuhtli quien me arrastra, sé que es él quien me arresta y, con la toga puesta, él mismo ahora me levanta el acta. Una cárcel compacta, el Reclusorio Orientese muestra de repente como el círculo interno de otra cárcel mayor: El barrio es el infierno. Pero peor. Laberinto de feria, el oriente … More Mictlantecuhtli
It’s a brilliant site. I got this from them. Axé. ENTER SHADOWS Then I saw the shadow of the massive cypress tree split the queue of cars in two. How can a neighborhood be as narrow as Ramallah al-Tahta? How can one tree’s shadow be as vast as a border cleaving countries? How can night … More Poem per diem: Enter Shadows
TRANSLATIONa huevo: to be aggressively seduced by an eggay diosito: the small god you thank because your hands existme hicieron ojo: my eyelashes flew one by one like a longing!señora studies: look, a map in the dirt of your mother’s hurtsempacho: you ate cactus until you burst open like a rotten fruittacos de cabeza: quandaries … More TRANSLATION (poem)
It’s my birthday! For my birthday, I will try to act henceforth as though I loved myself. It’s a very good project. What would it feel like to refuse to engage in arguments with others over my being and my right to exist? What would it feel like if I were immune to claims that … More December 24
An article I photocopied before there were online databases, and now I don’t need the photocopy because it is available in PDF via Project Muse. It’s in Nuevo Texto Crítico VIII:16/17 (Julio 1995-Junio 1996). Axé.
Orwell, George, Animal Farm. I wanted to reread this, although it is very depressing. Perhaps I didn’t like the format of this edition, the pages were quite narrow. But mostly I cannot reread this because I cannot handle animal stories, they are always too sad. Granados, Pedro, Inkarrí. All right, I had bought this to … More Books destroyed in a small flood
I want this book but it is very expensive. Also, I never doubted Trilce was a dadaist book. Anyway, the author is doing other interesting work as well. Apparently Vallejo’s grandmothers weren’t full-blooded Chimú, they were mestizas, and Larrea might not have been accurate on those gallego priests he allegedly had as grandfathers, either. Axé.
Here are the song lyrics in bilingual edition. Here is the amazing recording. This is the wild poet. Axé.
I won’t list all the books I have in a bag to donate, because it will make me quail. They are books I would keep if I did not have others. Famous anthologies of avant-garde writing, famous editions, Suleiman’s Subversive Intent, still-valid Footprint guides to Central America, Colombia, Jamaica, Mexico, things like this. But the … More Mapas anatómicos de César Vallejo
…or so to speak. Books now going, are going because they’re tattered and don’t look refreshing. There’s an English translation of Benítez Rojo, La isla que se repite, a good book, but I believe we have it in Spanish and anyway, this is widely available. On second thought I’ll take it home for my paper, … More Se me va la vida
coldhearted scientist وداد 