Long Vicente Poems

The Cry Of Dolores

A popular priest in 1810, Spanish rule he spoke against
those who had overthrown the Spanish Viceroy José de Iturrigaray
A speech calling upon the people to protect in angst
Their King Ferdinand VII was...

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The Poet’s Task, Translation of Carlos Bousono’s poem : La Labor del Poeta

				To Vicente Aleixandre

(It might be worth bearing in mind, while reading this poem, that Vicente Aleixandre was severely handicapped by illness from an...

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The Question, Translation of Carlos Bousono’s poem : La Cuestion

				« …Oh ! God, Oh ! Centre »*

		for Vicente Puchol

(* Note by the editor, Alejandro D. Amusco, attesting that the above quotation was not included in...

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Elegy on the Death of Vicente Aleixandre, Translation of Carlos Bousono’s poem : Elegia en la muerte de Vicente Aleixandre

(Born in 1923, Carlos Bousono, a renowned prize-winning Spanish poet and eminent theoretician on the aesthetics...

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Baile con migo, hips made from the rhythm of merengés and cumbias, samba, swagger and a pinch of azucar mixed into my backbone. 
My first language was Spanish. 
Learned from sweet stories told by my...

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Fear of God, Translation of Carlos Bousono’s poem, Miedo de Dios

(The second and fourth lines of these quatrains all end in the same rhyme, a feat it’ll be hard to maintain without appearing to be...

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jago christos uma rose
ethan cuevas corone
kelly elizabeth christos
alexia daniel wade jonathan james
emily-rose pau and willow too 

we didn't start the family
it was always growing
since the world's been turning
we didn't start the family
no we didn't fight...

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Somber psalm, Translation of Carlos Bousono’s poem : Salmo sombrio

(from Carlos Bousono’s first book of poems, written before he was 22 : Subida al amor (Ascent into love), 1945, and dedicated to the 1977 Nobel...

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For Vicente Fernandez

The dirt
The sweat
The horses,
Saddles off,
Brushed.

The girl who thinks she is pregnant.
The woman who is.
The man with no money is his pocket
The man with pockets full.
The man who stumbles.
The women who watch.

The broken hearts
The...

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THE   RIVER   SEA

Even from islands of the Antilles -
Taking Pinzon’s route to El Dorado
In  the  very foothills of the Andes
And its golden  yellow meadow.
 
Death-dealing its piranha and...

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You came and faded in the rising sun like snow
But left my heart a glow
Your smile was ever golden and pure 
Like the heart of your nurture

You shed tears so my hopes and dreams will...

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AMAZON  

Death-dealing its piranha and crocodile   
And its fast bore fierce and tidal. 
Life-giving, the earth’s river-daughter
Floods half a continent with water,
Floods half the planet with oxygen,
Probes fresh lobes far into salt...

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