READING NERUDA AND VALLEJO IN THE 1990S
Selected Poems of Pablo Neruda
From VEINTE POEMAS DE AMOR Y UNA CANCIÓN DESESPERADA
“Cuerpo de mujer, blancas colinas, muslos blancos”
“Body of a woman, white hills, white thighs”
“Te recuerdo como eras en el último otoño”
“I remember you as you were that final autumn”
From RESIDENCIA EN LA TIERRA I AND II
There Is No Forgetfulness (Sonata)
The Heights of Macchu Picchu, III
Toussaint L’Ouverture
Toussaint L’Ouverture
La United Fruit Co.
The United Fruit Co.
América, no invoco tu nombre en vano
America, I Do Not Call Your Name Without Hope
Hymno y regreso
Hymn and Return
I Wish the Woodcutter Would Wake Up
Carta a Miguel Otero Silva, en Caracas
Letter to Miguel Otero Silva, in Caracas
They Receive Instructions Against Chile
THE LAMB AND THE PINE CONE
(An Interview with Pablo Neruda by Robert Bly)
Selected Poems of César Vallejo
WHAT IF AFTER SO MANY WINGS OF BIRDS
Have You Anything to Say in Your Defense?
“What time are the big people”
XV “En el rincón aquel, donde dormimos juntos”
“In that corner, where we slept together”
XXIV “Al borde de un sepulcro florecido”
“At the border of a flowering grave”
“I am freed from the burdens of the sea”
LXXVII “Graniza tanto, como para que yo recuerde”
“So much hail that I remember”
From CODIGO CIVIL and POEMAS HUMANOS
“Quédeme a calentar la tinta en que me ahogo”
“I stayed here, warming the ink in which I drown”
Poema para ser leido y cantado
Piedra negra sobre una piedra blanca
Black Stone Lying on a White Stone
“En el momento en que el tenista lanza magistralmente”
“The tennis player, in the instant he majestically”
“Un pilar soportando consuelos”
“One pillar holding up consolations”
“And don’t bother telling me anything”
“¿Y bien? ¿Te sana el metaloide pálido?”
“And so? The pale metalloid heals you?”
“Tengo un miedo terrible de ser un animal”
“I have a terrible fear of being an animal”
“¡Y si después de tantas palabras”
“And what if after so many words”
“La cólera que quiebra al hombre en niños”
“The anger that breaks a man down into boys”