—Author once. Poet; traditional illustrator. He/Him. 18+
Lima, Perú
Joined November 2010
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“No history is mute. No matter how much they own it, break it, and lie about it, human history refuses to shut its mouth. Despite deafness and ignorance, the time that was continues to tick inside the time that is.”
- Eduardo Galeano
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What would it be like
to live in a library
of melted books.
With sentences streaming over the floor
and all the punctuation
settled to the bottom as a residue.
It would be confusing.
Unforgivable.
A great adventure.
—Anne Carson, from “Wildly Constant”
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Towards a more serious reading of Palestinan literature
@LAReviewofBooks
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“Cesar Vallejo placed three dots in the middle of the line, as if language itself were not enough, as if the poet’s voice needed to leap from one image to another to make— to use TS Elliot’s phrase— a raid on the inarticulate.”
- Ilya Kaminsky, “Osip Mandelstam: A Lyric Voice”
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Someone in hell is sitting beside you on the train.
Somebody burning unnoticed walks past in the street.
- Charles Wright, "The Choice"
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@TomSnarsky #smallpoemsunday
Carl Philips, “More Tenderly Over Some of Us Than Others”
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Hey, friends—something beautiful for your Saturday. Enjoy!
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Anne Carson, with one of my all-time favorite opening lines and one of my all-time favorite closing lines.
ALT O Small Sad Ecstasy of Love Anne Carson I like being with you all night with closed eyes. What luck—here you are coming along the stars! I did a road trip all over my mind and heart and there you were kneeling by the roadside with your little toolkit fixing something. Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.
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Natsume Soseki, tr. Soiku Shigematsu
ALT Ask the wind: Which leaf Falls first.