Three Poets Writing in Spanish

July 2011

In poetry from three Latin Americans, Nicaragua’s Ernesto Mejía Sánchez keeps watch in a translation by William Carlos Williams, Mexico’s Olvido García Valdés reflects on the moon, and Argentina’s Horacio Castillo considers the Arctic.

Vigils

By Ernesto Mejía Sánchez

I no longer know / whether I live / or swoon.

Translated from Spanish by William Carlos Williams

Multilingual

With March’s Moon the Photo

By Olvido García Valdés

Slow, the moon / returns month by month

Translated from Spanish by the author

Multilingual

The Rook, the Crow, the Magpie

By Olvido García Valdés

In order to walk lost in thought each could /become a talker.

Translated from Spanish by Catherine Hammond

Multilingual

Alaska

By Horacio Castillo

Three times I’ve offered my heart as bait.

Translated from Spanish by Samuel Gray

Multilingual

Epistle

By Horacio Castillo

The blind have been chosen to see it all.

Translated from Spanish by Samuel Gray

Multilingual

The City of the Sun

By Horacio Castillo

How could they suffer us to name the bird magnolia?

Translated from Spanish by Samuel Gray

Multilingual

The White Breast, the Black Breast

By Horacio Castillo

My mother had a white breast and a black breast.

Translated from Spanish by Samuel Gray

Multilingual

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Three Poets Writing in Spanish

July 2011

Vigils

With March’s Moon the Photo

The Rook, the Crow, the Magpie

Alaska

Epistle

The City of the Sun

The White Breast, the Black Breast