Articles tagged "Americas"

“I am like an otter” (Mag: Articles)

By Pancho Nácar | September 29, 2005

Note: This poem was originally written in Zapoteco. I am like an otter when he crosses the rivers and the sea, I do not need a ship to sail.  

Translated from Spanish by Earl Shorris and Sylvia Sasson Shorris

Escape From Death (Mag: Articles)

By Ismael García Marcelino | September 29, 2005

Note: This piece was originally written in Purépecha. Don Nicolas used to get up early every day to the sound of the birds singing. Although the cold bothered his eyes, he quickly got dressed, and…...

Translated from Spanish by Earl Shorris and Sylvia Sasson Shorris

Juan and Xtabay (Mag: Articles)

By Miguel Angel May May | September 29, 2005

Note: This piece was originally written in Yucatecan Maya. The author, Miguel May, is a personal friend. He lives in Mérida, Yucatán. His family still lives in a small town not far from the…...

Translated from Spanish by Earl Shorris and Sylvia Sasson Shorris

The Story of Naxá (Mag: Articles)

By Juan Gregorio Regino | September 28, 2005

Note: This piece was originally written in Mazateco. Naxá, the daughter of Ts'uí and Sa, was deeply in love with a young campesino named Xungá, who lived in one of the most humble…...

Translated from Spanish by Earl Shorris and Sylvia Sasson Shorris

Origins of the Indians in the New World (Mag: Articles)

By Fray Gregorio García | September 28, 2005

Note: This poem was originally written in Zapoteco. It was first published in Valencia, Spain, in 1607. Fray Gregorio had heard the story from Zapotecs. The work is a fragment. The name 1-deer, referring…...

Translated from Spanish by Earl Shorris and Sylvia Sasson Shorris

Memories (Mag: Articles)

By Humberto Ak abal | September 28, 2005

Now and then I walk backwards. It is my way of remembering. If I only walked forward, I could tell you about forgetting. This last poem in this sequence was originally published in Guchachi 'Reza'…...

Translated from Spanish by Earl Shorris and Sylvia Sasson Shorris

Opening Poem of the Cantares Mexicanos (Mag: Articles)

By Unknown | September 28, 2005

Note: This poem was originally written in Classical Náhuatl. It is the first poem in the group known as the "Cantares Mexicanos." The Náhuatl title is "Cuicapeuhcáyotl", which León-Portilla…...

Translated from Spanish by Earl Shorris and Sylvia Sasson Shorris

The Lemon Seller (Mag: Articles)

By Natalia Toledo Paz | September 28, 2005

Note: This poem was originally written in Zapoteco. To travel the seas of silence becoming nothing in the foam as if the body could have no meaning. The eyes attached to a ship, and the fate in the balance…...

Translated from Spanish by Earl Shorris and Sylvia Sasson Shorris

Chatty Girl (Mag: Articles)

By Javier Castellanos | September 28, 2005

Note: This poem was originally written in Zapoteco. My chatty little girl: pile up your words, cut your words into pieces and anoint me with them to see if they can soothe the pain I feel now. My chatty…...

Translated from Spanish by Earl Shorris and Sylvia Sasson Shorris

The Ash Vendors (Mag: Articles)

By Rita Molina Elias | September 28, 2005

Note: This piece was originally written in Purépecha. There once was a man who had gone to a city to sell ashes; upon arriving he spread out his "merchandise" in the town square and there he remained…...

Translated from Spanish by Earl Shorris and Sylvia Sasson Shorris

Family Picture in Havana (Mag: Articles)

By Raúl Rivero | May 1, 2005

Mom and I are alone once again the same as it was at the end of the forties. Alone, in a house that's not our own, we tell each other last night's dreams (in hers two old people are always crying;…...

Translated from Spanish by Diana Alvarez-Amell

I Don’t Want Anyone Coming around to Save Me (Mag: Articles)

By Raúl Rivero | May 1, 2005

I don't want anyone coming around to save me So, whoever is sending me those nice thoughts, those smug little messages, --take it elsewhere. Cut off the oxygen now. I don't want to suffer the agony…...

Translated from Spanish by Diana Alvarez-Amell and Jeffrey Gray

Nothing? (Mag: Articles)

By Raúl Rivero | May 1, 2005

Where I used to dwell in my autumn, with my rags and I say dwelled because I felt alive inside there as never before. Where I used to inhabit tremulous, subtle and I was recognized by my sinews and my…...

Translated from Spanish by Diana Alvarez-Amell

High Fidelity (Mag: Articles)

By Raúl Rivero | May 1, 2005

They'll be free from the gramophone's pain, its torture from the rub and the needles. Chaste, they'll not know the sin of singing a capella while hungry caught between the farce and the fair.…...

Translated from Spanish by Diana Alvarez-Amell

On Tyranny (Mag: Articles)

By Raúl Rivero | May 1, 2005

The one that's out there in the street, out there in the country, the rough and vehement tyranny, that governs my life as a citizen that one will pass because it punishes my body, but does not have…...

Translated from Spanish by Diana Alvarez-Amell

“Will nothing of my earthly fame endure?” (Mag: Articles)

By Miguel León-Portilla | August 1, 2004

Will nothing of my earthly fame endure? Not even flowers, not even songs! What can my heart do? In vain we have sprung forth, we have come to be on earth. Let us enjoy ourselves, my friends, let us embrace…...

Translated from Spanish by Earl Shorris and Abbas Saffari

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