Bruce Dean Willis

is Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at The University of Tulsa. His research and publications focus on diverse aspects of poetry and performance, and expressions of Indigenous and African cultures, in Latin American literature, particularly Brazil, Chile, and Mexico.

TIME FOR CHOCOLATE is available for purchase through One Act Play Depot! A brief description:

An intoxicating evening of music, poetry, and chocolate... in pre-conquest Mexico!
Based on a fifteenth-century dialogue among nobles schooled in rhetoric and philosophy, the play pits father against son in a war of words over the power and beauty of artistic expression.

Monday, January 3, 2011

Lost Legends Triptych: Sonnet III

A beira do amplo rio inacabável,
deliravam soldados acabados:
numa beligerância formidável,
caiam os companheiros flechados.

Mas a força guerreira inexorável,
eram mulheres de seios cortados?
De cabelo longo e rosto implacável,
as Amazonas de arcos alongados?

Viram o que viram, ou o que quiseram?
Desvairaram, inventaram, fizeram?
Todos levamos, como com cadeia,

o que não podemos deixar de ver,
o que não devemos deixar de crer:
o Colombo atônito ante a sereia.

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