tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20049141405975010862024-02-21T03:51:15.235-06:00Macaw: Creative Writing & Latin America© Bruce Dean Willishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18264879980894296560noreply@blogger.comBlogger179125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2004914140597501086.post-7102044780804406462020-05-11T17:49:00.000-05:002020-05-11T17:49:10.102-05:00Jotabê<br />
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<span lang="PT-BR" style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;">(poema pro Jorge Bandeira no aniversário 52
dele, 23/ABR/2020)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="PT-BR" style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;">Jotabê, Jotabê,
quem é Jotabê?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="PT-BR" style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;">É um homem
que veio do igarapé.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="PT-BR" style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;">E é para lá
que deseja voltar?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="PT-BR" style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;">Tanto faz –
ele mora no mesmo lugar.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="PT-BR" style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;">Jotabê,
Jotabê, como é Jotabê?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="PT-BR" style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;">É um homem
nuinho da cabeça ao pé.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="PT-BR" style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;">E o que ele
põe quando se tem que tapar?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="PT-BR" style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;">Se veste de
versos, de sol e de ar.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="PT-BR" style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;">Jotabê, Jotabê,
o que faz Jotabê?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="PT-BR" style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;">Ele faz é
desenhos e livros e <i>play</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="PT-BR" style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;">Não é no
teatro que vai ensaiar?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="PT-BR" style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;">No palco
ele brinca e ensina sonhar.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="PT-BR" style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;">Jotabê,
Jotabê, o que diz Jotabê?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="PT-BR" style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;">Ele diz que
o mundo é nem que você.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="PT-BR" style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;">E isso, o
que pode significar?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="PT-BR" style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;">Sei lá.
Quer saber? Vá com ele falar!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />© Bruce Dean Willishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18264879980894296560noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2004914140597501086.post-62132355169399843482018-10-23T16:29:00.001-05:002018-10-23T16:29:54.587-05:00Calavera Bolsonaro<br />
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<span lang="ES-MX" style="mso-ansi-language: ES-MX;">Mucho
cobarde se esconde<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-MX" style="mso-ansi-language: ES-MX;">vilmente
tras el gatillo,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-MX" style="mso-ansi-language: ES-MX;">pues busca
algo en el bolsillo…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-MX" style="mso-ansi-language: ES-MX;">que agarrar
no tiene dónde.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-MX" style="mso-ansi-language: ES-MX;">Un tal cretino
que incita<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-MX" style="mso-ansi-language: ES-MX;">a su gente
a la violencia - <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-MX" style="mso-ansi-language: ES-MX;">sin
importar consecuencia<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-MX" style="mso-ansi-language: ES-MX;">al ruin racismo
la invita - <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-MX" style="mso-ansi-language: ES-MX;">se llama
Jair Bolsonaro.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-MX" style="mso-ansi-language: ES-MX;">Este bruto
brasileño<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-MX" style="mso-ansi-language: ES-MX;">pone desigual
empeño<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-MX" style="mso-ansi-language: ES-MX;">en promover
el descaro.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-MX" style="mso-ansi-language: ES-MX;">Su seña
reconocida - <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-MX" style="mso-ansi-language: ES-MX;">con los
dedos apuntando<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-MX" style="mso-ansi-language: ES-MX;">cual
pistolas disparando – <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-MX" style="mso-ansi-language: ES-MX;">lo delata
fratricida,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-MX" style="mso-ansi-language: ES-MX;">aun cuando
sus comentarios<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-MX" style="mso-ansi-language: ES-MX;">homofóbicos,
racistas,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-MX" style="mso-ansi-language: ES-MX;">misóginos y
fascistas<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-MX" style="mso-ansi-language: ES-MX;">estimulan
partidarios.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-MX" style="mso-ansi-language: ES-MX;">Pues hay
quien lo apoya, ciego,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-MX" style="mso-ansi-language: ES-MX;">como
rechazo al partido <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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que percibe
corrompido,</div>
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<span lang="ES-MX" style="mso-ansi-language: ES-MX;">sin ver
corrupto el propio ego:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-MX" style="mso-ansi-language: ES-MX;">el voto por
el malvado <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-MX" style="mso-ansi-language: ES-MX;">es un voto
por la saña<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-MX" style="mso-ansi-language: ES-MX;">que al
público tonto engaña <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-MX" style="mso-ansi-language: ES-MX;">al sentirse
muy halagado,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-MX" style="mso-ansi-language: ES-MX;">pero aunque
se haga jurar,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-MX" style="mso-ansi-language: ES-MX;">promesa
hecha por culebra,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-MX" style="mso-ansi-language: ES-MX;">por mucho
que se celebra,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-MX" style="mso-ansi-language: ES-MX;">es
imposible confiar.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-MX" style="mso-ansi-language: ES-MX;">Así pintaba
el ambiente<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-MX" style="mso-ansi-language: ES-MX;">cuando
llegó la Catrina, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-MX" style="mso-ansi-language: ES-MX;">vestida de
gente fina,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-MX" style="mso-ansi-language: ES-MX;">de la
situación consciente.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-MX" style="mso-ansi-language: ES-MX;">Se acerca
al exmilitar,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-MX" style="mso-ansi-language: ES-MX;">saboreando
el disgusto,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-MX" style="mso-ansi-language: ES-MX;">y al
malhechor le da un susto<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="PT-BR" style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;">que no
logra disfrazar.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="PT-BR" style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;">“<i>Sai de
mim, Morte, depressa!<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span lang="PT-BR" style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;"><i>Aprecio
seus favores,<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span lang="PT-BR" style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;"><i>mas não
aturo seus pavores.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span lang="PT-BR" style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;"><i>Seu voto em
mim não interessa.</i>”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-MX" style="mso-ansi-language: ES-MX;">Le responde
la Difunta,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-MX" style="mso-ansi-language: ES-MX;">“Como
apuñalado fuiste,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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pero con
vida seguiste,</div>
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<span lang="ES-MX" style="mso-ansi-language: ES-MX;">mi
dedo-rifle te apunta.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-MX" style="mso-ansi-language: ES-MX;">Y ahí
petateó el capitán<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-MX" style="mso-ansi-language: ES-MX;">por la
Muerte señalado,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-MX" style="mso-ansi-language: ES-MX;">el ademán coreado<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-MX" style="mso-ansi-language: ES-MX;">por los que
despertarán,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-MX" style="mso-ansi-language: ES-MX;">los que
dejarán atrás<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-MX" style="mso-ansi-language: ES-MX;">a una
calavera tiesa<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-MX" style="mso-ansi-language: ES-MX;">por un
Brasil que progresa<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-MX" style="mso-ansi-language: ES-MX;">como tú,
lector, harás.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="PT-BR" style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;">PORT: Uma
“calavera” é um poema satírico da tradição mexicana, próprio da temporada do
Día de los Muertos. A calavera retrata o falecimento imaginado de alguma figura
pública, de maneira inspirada pelo caráter ou os excessos dessa figura.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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ENGL: A “calavera” is a satirical poem, traditional in
Mexico during the season of Día de los Muertos. The calavera portrays the
imagined passing of some public figure, in a way that is inspired by the
personality or excesses of that person.<o:p></o:p></div>
<br />© Bruce Dean Willishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18264879980894296560noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2004914140597501086.post-50629156295943784742018-02-13T17:12:00.000-06:002018-02-13T17:13:42.663-06:00Ixta y Goyo<div style="text-align: center;">
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Duermen edades ciegas</div>
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pero a veces son activos</div>
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Dominan el paisaje</div>
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de la mes(et)a</div>
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Una es como de color blanco</div>
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y el otro humeado</div>
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Protagonizan leyendas</div>
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contadas entre familia</div>
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Majestuosos, representan</div>
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la sabiduría impávida de la naturaleza</div>
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Y se siente el retumbar</div>
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cuando ronronean</div>
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© Bruce Dean Willishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18264879980894296560noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2004914140597501086.post-33725499909666261592016-10-17T17:26:00.000-05:002016-10-17T17:33:34.677-05:00A Corn Husk ChatLast Friday, as part of a program called <a href="https://humanities.utulsa.edu/2016/10/17/art-science-food/" target="_blank">"The Art and Science of Food"</a> hosted by the <a href="https://humanities.utulsa.edu/" target="_blank">Oklahoma Center for the Humanities</a> for the students of <a href="http://www.sanmigueltulsa.org/" target="_blank">San Miguel Middle School</a>, I got to share an hour or so with 6th, 7th, and 8th-graders in turn, discussing corn in the Mayan worldview. After talking about topics like the cities of Mayapán, hybridization of maize from teocintle (and its archaeological remains in nearby Oaxaca), and cultivation in <a href="http://viaorganica.org/la-milpa-del-buen-comer/" target="_blank">la milpa</a> with beans and squash to see how the plants help each other grow, we went over a quick version of the <i><a href="http://www.mesoweb.com/publications/Christenson/PopolVuh.pdf" target="_blank">Popol Vuh</a></i> creation story and the three tries to create humankind: mud, wood, and corn.<br />
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The students each got to husk an ear of corn, but before they started pulling off leaves we talked about how the pollen-catching silk strands connect to the kernels, one each, which explains why one ear can have more than one color of kernels ... and about how the <a href="http://www.academia.edu/1945943/Why_the_head_Cranial_modification_as_protection_and_ensoulment_among_the_Maya" target="_blank">Mayan elite would sometimes shape their newborns' heads to resemble an ear of corn</a>. After the husking, we listed the many scrumptious foods made from corn, and we talked about what you can make from the other parts, too - the silk (tea), the husks (wrappings for tamales, among many other uses), and the cobs (fuel, etc.). We talked about metates, comales, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixtamalization" target="_blank">nixtamalization</a>, and we all learned a lot, including me - I had never heard of <a href="http://www.saludeficaz.com/barba-de-choclo-propiedades-medicinales/" target="_blank">corn silk tea</a>.<br />
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This was a fun and productive bilingual presentation and conversation that engaged a group of junior high students, a majority of whom are the children of immigrants from Mexico and Central America, with the marvelous and delicious traditions of their ancestors. © Bruce Dean Willishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18264879980894296560noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2004914140597501086.post-31312448665069634942016-10-17T16:55:00.000-05:002018-10-25T09:26:09.853-05:00Kitchen Cosmos<div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Univers Next W01 Light", sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 25px; padding: 0px;">
<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><i><span style="color: blue;">The following <a href="https://humanities.utulsa.edu/2016/08/30/kitchen-cosmos/" target="_blank">post </a>was published last month as my contribution to the blog for the <a href="https://humanities.utulsa.edu/" target="_blank">Oklahoma Center for the Humanities</a>, where I am a fellow this year for the seminar on food.</span></i></span></div>
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Pots and pans, mortars and pestles, pitchers, whisks, knives: the implements for processing, cooking, and storing food represent some of the most elemental and yet creative of human inventions. Because of their familiarity through daily use, these utensils sometimes even become characters in legends, or the focus of certain traditions, of the kind my students and I examine and analyze in the Latin American Cultures course.</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">In </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Popol Vuh</i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">, the cosmology of the Quiché Maya, cooking tools famously rebel against their masters. The creation story relates that the gods needed three tries to create humankind. In the first attempt, the mud-sculpted proto-humans fell apart. In the second attempt, the mannequin-like figures made of wood could walk and talk, but they had neither heart nor mind, and could not recognize kindness and respect. They were punished by the gods, by their own dogs and turkeys (animals that were eaten), and even by their cooking utensils:</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Then the grinding stones said this to them: “We were ground upon by you. Every day, every day, in the evening and at dawn, always you did </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">holi, holi, huki, huki</i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> on our faces. This was our service for you who were the first people. But this day you shall feel our strength. We shall grind you like maize. We shall grind up your flesh,” said their grinding stones to them.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Then spoke also their griddles and their pots to them: “Pain you have caused us. Our mouths and our faces are sooty. You were forever throwing us upon the fire and burning us. Although we felt no pain, you now shall try it. We shall burn you,” said all of their pots. Thus their faces were all crushed. (76-77, </span><a href="http://www.mesoweb.com/publications/Christenson/PopolVuh.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #004b8d; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.25s;">trans. Christenson</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">)</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">The mannequins were eventually drowned, and those few who survived became the monkeys.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">The third try was the charm: humans were successfully amassed out of different colors of corn dough. In general terms, Mesoamerican belief systems hold that people are made of corn, and corn is kin. Even today there are those who believe that to sell corn is to sell one’s cousin, sibling, or parent–the same failure to recognize kindness and respect that doomed the wooden people.</span><br />
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Caribbean and Amazonian cosmologies tend to feature gourds as womb-like containers of treasured abundance. In Taino myth, for example, the ocean and all its fish are born from a dropped calabash when Deminán and his brothers try to return the gourd to its safe perch in the clouds. Cuban writer Antonio José Ponte, in his essay collection </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Las comidas profundas</i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">, writes of a tradition in eastern Cuba in which a gourd or a jug is kept in a secure spot out of the sun and away from animals, to be gradually filled with fruits as they come into season over the nine months of a mother’s pregnancy:</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Poco a poco, entre el espíritu de la botella, figuración de </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Las Mil y Una Noches</i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">, y el espíritu del niño esperado, empieza a establecerse una relación muy estrecha. Todo lo dulce a la redonda, toda carne de fruta entra a la matriz de vidrio para componer un doble, un niño de tierra. La barriga de la madre y la del botellón se vuelven fermentaciones gemelas (48).</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">[Little by little, between the spirit of the bottle, allegory of </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">A Thousand and One Nights</i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">, and the spirit of the expected child, a very close relationship begins to be established. All that is sweet from the surrounding area, all flesh of fruit enters into the womb of glass to create a double, a child of the earth. The belly of the mother and the belly of the jug become twin fermentations.] (my trans.)</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">The resulting mixture, a sangría-like drink called </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">aliñado</i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">, is imbibed to celebrate the baby’s birth, or even stored much longer and fermented further as the child grows.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">These mythological and ritual examples from the Americas blur the lines among humans, food, and food preparation utensils, as co-actors in one environment, to demonstrate an ancient truth: we are not only </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">what </i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">we eat or drink, but also the embodied practice of </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">how </i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">we prepare and consume it.</span></div>
© Bruce Dean Willishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18264879980894296560noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2004914140597501086.post-25389228293606770312015-02-09T14:50:00.002-06:002015-06-01T12:04:57.741-05:00Coloquio que sostuvieron el rincón y la esquina<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Don Marcos del Rincón dijo,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">"Si me acerco a la ventana,</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">a Tránsito de la Esquina</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">veré, ella que siempre pasa</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">husmeando y rezongando</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">por la puerta de mi casa</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">a esta hora, cuando amanece,</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">porque le comen las ansias</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">de saber mis novedades. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Por eso, mejor me alcanza</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">la cortina, aquí adentro,</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">que, de tela oscura, tapa</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">mi cuerpo pero no mi oído. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Ella quiere vistas anchas; </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">yo, prefiero lo cuadrado.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Anhelo las cosas cerradas. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Cada cosa su función,</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">cada cosa en su lugar. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Aquí esperaré escondido</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">a escuchar su lengua mala."</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Dijo doña Tránsito de la Esquina al</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">pasar por la ventana del Sr. Rincón,</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">"Ay, cómo me fastidia el ruco chismoso</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">que aquí vive. Nunca sale, apenas asoma</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">la nariz, y más bien se hace el desaparecido</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">detrás de su cortina. Se imagina que vengo con escándalos a contar,</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">cuando tan sólo me hago llegar a ver si está bien,</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">como quien</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">se cuida de un amigo, pues. Así que, </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">don Marcos, hágase ver, que le traje noticias del mundo de afuera." </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">"Aléjese, señora, <br />
porque de sus malas mañas<br />
no quiero yo ni saber.<br />
Desvíe su caminata<br />
a pasar por otras calles<br />
y dejar de molestar."<br />
Mientras lo dijo don Marcos,<br />
no pudo dejar de espiarla.<br />
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"Ni que lo estuviera importunando,<br />
don Marcos, no sea Ud. tan pesado. Mire que<br />
está Ud. pálido. La brisa fresca del mar<br />
le hace falta, y el buen beso<br />
de los rayos del sol."<br />
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"¡Tengo la salud de un oso!<br />
¡Qué de rayos ni qué nada!<br />
Más bien Ud., doña Tránsito,<br />
luce bastante quemada.<br />
¿No será que tanto sol <br />
le quita todas las ganas<br />
de pensar con su sano juicio?<br />
Su mente ya no está clara."<br />
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"¡Uf! Cuide lo que dice, don Marcos, no vaya<br />
a ser que Ud. sea el más indicado para<br />
señalar con dedo ajeno." Doña Tránsito le guiñó el ojo y prosiguió, "Le haré saber que por lo mismo de que yo sí<br />
salgo y veo las gentes pasar y las nubes pasar y los naves<br />
pasar, yo sí veo bien, todo iluminado por el astro rey, y mi salud es la de<br />
la yegua fuerte que sube y baja por los vericuetos de la ciudad."<br />
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"Entonces, ¿por qué delira?<br />
Le escucho pero no me habla<br />
como debe ser, en verso,<br />
con rima y ritmo que entablan.<br />
Si no puede mostrar forma<br />
de romance ni cantata,<br />
sus opiniones e ideas<br />
¿cómo voy yo a respetarlas?"<br />
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"¿Forma? También la tiene la ardiente luz del sol cuando se filtra por<br />
el verdor de las hojas del bosque, y toda la escena queda ilustrada, como que de oro impregnada. Forma difícil de asir pero fácil de apreciar. ¿O no lo has visto nunca, don Marcos?"<br />
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"En mis libros veo todo.<br />
¿Qué no pueden ilustrar<br />
el arte de los dibujos,<br />
la ciencia de las palabras?<br />
Si se trata de un concepto<br />
que merece muchas páginas,<br />
seré el primero en leerlas.<br />
Así, qué el mundo se me abra."<br />
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"Yo creo, señor, que eso que Ud. dice de que quiere que el mundo se le abra, es<br />
realmente lo que Ud. añora. Pero Ud, sólo por empecinado, <br />
digo, <br />
por terco, porfiado, testarudo, obstinado e intransigente,<br />
se niega a ver que el mundo se abre al umbral de su <br />
puerta." Doña Tránsito se ajustó la blusa y la canasta que llevaba, y agregó, "Que pase un buen día, y hasta mañana."<br />
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Quedó perplejo don Marcos.<br />
Le respondió, "Hasta mañana,"<br />
refunfuñando entre dientes.<br />
Se puso a pelar naranjas;<br />
pensando en soles y mundos<br />
dejaba caer las cáscaras.<br />
Después volvió a sus romances<br />
de maneras anticuadas<br />
que escribía en puño y letra:<br />
metáforas delicadas<br />
de amores por doña Tránsito.<br />De repente entró una ráfaga <br />
por la ventana y todo se hizo un caos<br />
de cáscaras y metáforas y hojas sueltas que a don Marcos le costó unas horas <br />
para arreglar, pero se fastidió y salió al muelle<br />
para ver llegar y salir los naves y las nubes y fue entonces que<br />
supo que <br />
un romance es bonito pero que no siempre<br />
lo romántico se confina en su forma.<br />
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© Bruce Dean Willishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18264879980894296560noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2004914140597501086.post-41131988597456571302014-11-18T08:48:00.001-06:002016-02-11T09:20:16.125-06:00The Writers' Stabbing<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>If you know what kind of a thing is a knife, you’re not
going to grab it by the wrong end. How will you slice an onion with the handle?
More to the point, —ouch—, how will you avoid slicing open your own palm with
the blade? Which kind of tears do you want, if any? Knowing how to use a knife
means knowing where and when and how to slice.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Like a knife to an onion, an apostrophe slices a word
wide open. The word <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">didn’t</i>, for
example, precisely indicates where the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">o</i>
from <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">not</i> was cut, or elided, when the
contraction was produced. The scarred misspelling “did’nt,” in contrast, shows
a sloppy sliver where none was needed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Sometimes we see an apostrophe that reveals who holds the
dagger, who possesses what: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">the student’s
sins, the writers’ stabbing</i>. We can even tell how many do the possessing;
in these examples, there is one student, and there are more than one writers. To
the ear, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">the student’s sins</i> and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">the students’ sins</i> and maybe even <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">the student sins</i> all sound the same. If
we hear the cut at all, it is only the faint whisper between one <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">s</i> and another as the knife comes
unsheathed. But we can see the cut, and a writer who desires clarity of meaning
should carve with the precision of the surgeon’s scalpel.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>And yet ignorance of technique leads us to a strange
reversal in contemporary English, in which people are given to using the handle
for the blade and the blade for the handle, a mangled language of bludgeoned
jack-o’-lanterns and punctured doorbells. It seems more common to see, lately,
bloody botched procedures such as “Davids Pizzas” where “We have dipping
sauce’s.” Plurals don’t need an apostrophe operation any more than pizzas need
plastic surgery. And as for David, well, maybe someone is trying to suggest
that he dispossess his pizzas. Is this just outright confusion, comparable to a
misspelling? Is it the result of dependence on, or ignorance of, software such
as Microsoft Word? Does it all stem from the anxiety of that persistent Sword
of Damocles, the conundrum of “is it <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">it’s</i>
or is it <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">its</i>?” My fearful suspicion
is that all of this random slashing replicates the unfocused thrashing-about of
a seething, unsettled society whose members do not know where or when or how to
show, or to use, their weapons.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Because an apostrophe is most certainly a weapon, and of
the most vastly insidious kind of violence visited upon speakers and readers of
the English language. You, writer—you!—you are complicit in Kennedy’s
assassination when you give it to him like that, for him to possess, as if
anyone wants to possess her or his own murder. This is a
fundamentally unethical form of grammatical viciousness that, for as banal and
accepted as it is, does not stop being a form of violence that affects the way
we think about perpetrators and victims, about crimes and consequences. It is
the lazy ease of slurred syllables—the unburdening of not bothering to locate a
recycling receptacle; the casual, hurtful chuckle at someone else’s
misfortune—that compounds wound over wound and adds up to the death by a
thousand cuts. There is always an alternative way to recast the sentence, to
subvert the strictures of column width or character count, to slice, if at all,
elsewhere: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">the traitor's crime against the
nation, the assassin’s murder of the millionaire, the bombs’ destruction upon
the city</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The writers’ stabbing is the apostrophe’s purpose. At its
best, it’s the mark of a clear incision, a graceful stroke, a clever slash’s
eye-catching curve. Can you cut it? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
© Bruce Dean Willishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18264879980894296560noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2004914140597501086.post-49141690566006780642014-06-20T15:40:00.001-05:002014-06-20T15:40:16.962-05:00Manaus entre Emblemas e EspetáculosA cidade de Manaus cresce além das expectativas. Definitivamente os limites da cidade na imaginação do mundo transbordam o que seria só o turismo da selva. Sem dúvida os turistas da Copa percebem que é uma cidade grande--grande mesmo--e não o que talvez pensavam: "uma aldéia no meio da Amazônia." Os governos municipal e do estado agendaram um número récorde de eventos culturais durante a Copa, e a segurança e receptividade da cidade têm sido louvadas. Tanto foi assim que, após serem realizados apenas dois dos quatro jogos programados, a cidade de Manaus ganhou o título de "melhor cidade sede da Copa."<br />
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O desenho da Arena da Amazônia faz notícia pelos toques de cultura local e de sustentabilidade: a forma de cesto de palha, a função da armazenagem da chuva, o uso da energia solar, o reaproveitamento de materiais do antigo estádio, etc. Contudo fica claro que o preço enorme da construção e o trânsito piorado causaram polêmica, entanto os três operários que morreram por acidentes durante a construção foram lamentados e martirizados.<br />
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O que acho também relevante da Arena da Amazônia é a relação que ela tem com outra construção emblemática de Manaus: o Teatro Amazonas. Estes dois prédios, construidos para a promoção de espetáculos e para a recepção de visitantes estrangeiros (e brasileiros), agora servem como ícones da cidade. O primeiro do século XIX e o segundo do século XXI; o primeiro com capacidade de 685 pessoas e o segundo de 42.000; o primeiro com palco e o segundo com grama. O primeiro foi levantado como um monumento ao Velho Continente no coração no Novo Mundo; o segundo foi desenhado para refletir formas e valores autóctones (o cesto de palha, a preservação ambiental). O Teatro Amazonas até funcionou como cortina de fundo para a apresentação do cartaz oficial de Manaus como cidade sede, fazendo desse jeito um elo entre passado e futuro.</div>
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Apoio e concordo com os desejos da grande e perseverante população manauara: que a nova Arena sirva para muitos eventos além da Copa--concertos, jogos, espetáculos--ultrapassando o objetivo literal do "para inglês (vs. italiano!) ver" para ser uma jóia sustentável mesmo.<br />
<br />© Bruce Dean Willishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18264879980894296560noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2004914140597501086.post-7882000451494486002014-06-17T20:40:00.004-05:002014-06-18T11:10:32.947-05:00BRAZIL vs. MEXICO<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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There's a lot of me wrapped up in that headline, in many ways! What a great game it was today, one of the most exciting draws you could imagine in what was seen nonetheless as a victory for Mexico. Professionally, I've published more about Brazil than about Mexico. But I've taught more Spanish in my Mexican accent than Portuguese in my Brazilian one. If I were for some reason confined to either of those countries for the rest of my life, I would not care - I would be pleased, and I would feel at home. Such rich cultures, such variety. They are the two poles of what it means for me to be a Latin Americanist.<br />
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Because of their sizes, populations, and economies, Brazil and Mexico are the Latin American giants. But more than this, they are the giants of the soccer world. How can this be, if Brazil has won five World Cup championships (the record) while Mexico--though almost always a strong team and one of only a few nations to have hosted the World Cup itself twice--has not yet made it to the Round of Eight? It is because they have the largest populations in the world of soccer fandom. To start with the obvious, we can eliminate the global demographic colossi China, India, and Indonesia, which don't have World Cup-qualifying teams, nor do they seem to have the fan base for them. But what about Argentina? It's also an incredibly soccer-crazed nation with a large territory, yet its population is only slightly more than a third of Mexico's. In the Spanish-speaking world, Colombia and Spain have larger populations than Argentina's, but the two populations together are still shy of Mexico's.<br />
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Among the teams at this year's World Cup, it's true that the US, Russia, Nigeria and Japan all have populations greater than Mexico's (but--except the US-- lesser than Brazil's). Still, I would contend that the uniformity of soccer passion across practically all sectors of Mexican society (and including millions of Mexicans in the US) means that the nation as a whole is much more invested in its team than are the Americans, the Russians, the Nigerians, or the Japanese.<br />
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What this means is that the particular match BRAZIL vs. MEXICO holds the greatest possible combined national interest among the citizens of the countries whose teams are playing. No wonder it was an exciting game. It probably attracted the largest TV audience of the Group phase matches. Perhaps the teams will meet yet again before this World Cup is over!© Bruce Dean Willishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18264879980894296560noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2004914140597501086.post-29506822918380535972014-02-04T19:03:00.000-06:002014-02-04T19:08:31.354-06:00Wrap<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Flee, thought, across the distance.</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;">runninflyinrunniflyscootrunflyflyscootrunningrunningfly</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I will catch you.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">And the catching of you will be the knowing, the naming of you.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Because a name you must have.</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;">name thing name signifier name word name name</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The speed of the whirling dust in your wake as you pursue the horizon,</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;">cloud of plumes scooting at an attainable height,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I will match with my gallop.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Let your name be... ñandú.</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;">ñandú ñandú ñandú rhea</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">And mine will be gaucho.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">And with my shoulder I raise my arm, I swing that with which </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I will </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">apprehend you:</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">three weighted ropes of different lengths, joined at one end.</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;">ora bolas bolas bolas</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">With these I will capture you.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I will attain and retain and ascertain you,</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;">thought with the heft and hurl of a</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">rhea.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Even as you flee I have cast my stones:</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;">ora bolas bolas bolas</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">one to circumscribe you quickly</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;">your legs </span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;">patas </span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;">step no more</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">while the second wraps further round to categorize you</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;">tight</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;">tighter</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">and the third, the longest, encircles you repeatedly to characterize and contextualize you,</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;">tightest</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">thought brought down for analysis,</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;">quick squeeze succulent</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">for dissection</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">and digestion.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">But sometimes you thoughts are best, and most enticing,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">when unfettered, scattered</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;">clouds of plumes plumes clouds plumes clouds of plumes</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">across the pampas</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">and I</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">can only perceive you</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;">remotely</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">with longing for your form.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Yes, that's often best.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Knowing you are out there in space</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;">potential not kinetic</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">is another way of naming,</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;">of imagining.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Flocks of thoughts roam free</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;">and live and die unknown</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">until the hunt.</span>© Bruce Dean Willishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18264879980894296560noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2004914140597501086.post-40129799934530624302013-12-28T21:58:00.001-06:002013-12-28T22:01:30.364-06:00Americatlas<div><div>Nevados paisajes septentrionales:</div><div>longitudes descienden ríos helados,</div><div>lagos por canoas atravesados,</div><div>pueblos con bienes, redes transversales. </div><div><br></div><div>Cordilleras que acaban tropicales:</div><div>cabos, islas, volcanes emplumados,</div><div>terrenos por manos pardas sembrados,</div><div>abundantes lluvias ecuatoriales. </div><div><br></div><div>El águila y el cóndor, por los vientos,</div><div>espían picos blancos, playas mansas,</div><div>selvas talladas pero renacidas. </div><div><br></div><div>Sobrevuelan el cono estrecho cientos </div><div>de aves que ejecutan aéreas danzas.</div><div>Hasta el finisterra son detenidas. </div></div>© Bruce Dean Willishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18264879980894296560noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2004914140597501086.post-83359962227772793822013-11-03T14:46:00.001-06:002013-11-04T19:06:27.519-06:00Calavera tardía del tiempo libre<div>Yo traigo el reloj encima.</div><div>Tengo las manos atadas,</div><div>y al asiento de trabajo,</div><div>las posaderas pegadas.</div><div>Pues mi amado tiempo libre</div><div>se fue, junto a la ventana. </div><div>Las cuatro paredes reinan,</div><div>soberbias como murallas</div><div>impenetrables. La luz</div><div>crea, cuando no se apaga,</div><div>una iluminación </div><div>tenue, mas, mejor que nada. </div><div>Pero con los quehaceres</div><div>esa luz viene menguada;</div><div>y la luz es el tiempo, pues</div><div>crece del sol y del agua</div><div>todo en este lindo mundo. </div><div>El tiempo de uno no basta. </div><div>Si resto mi tiempo libre</div><div>de las horas ocupadas,</div><div>tan poco me queda hoy</div><div>que se suma al de mañana. </div><div>¡Ay! Se me terminó el ocio,</div><div>del poema el manantial.</div><div>Quizá al tiempo libre, ¡no haya</div><div>modo de resucitar!</div><div><br></div>© Bruce Dean Willishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18264879980894296560noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2004914140597501086.post-80550188660508699282013-08-29T13:15:00.001-05:002013-08-29T13:16:16.512-05:00These things I know<h4>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">These
things I know - <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">how do I
know them?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I read
them I laugh them I smell them I eat them<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I cry them
I squeeze them I hide them<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I find
them...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Maybe
these things I know are really one big thing,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">and that
is the thing about which the ceaseless cycle of learning <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">is also
the act of living. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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© Bruce Dean Willishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18264879980894296560noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2004914140597501086.post-75479270984046189382013-07-23T13:39:00.003-05:002013-07-23T13:39:53.149-05:00tarareoTarareo<br />
porque sí.<br />
<br />
Tarareo,<br />
¿por qué no?<br />
<br />
Tarareo<br />
porque así me hago vibrar:<br />
el músico, la música,<br />
y el instrumento de cuerdas<br />
es uno mismo.<br />
<br />
Tarareo<br />
una intensidad variable<br />
como un arco-iris de ondas. <br />
<br />
Tarareo<br />
tan sólo porque el ronroneo<br />
me es ajeno de especie.<br />
<br />
Tarareo<br />
porque así manifesto el bienestar<br />
o bien<br />
ahuyento el malestar.<br />
<br />
Tarareo<br />
así como quien come con delicia<br />
y bebe con astucia<br />
y enamora con caricia<br />
todo simultáneo como un acorde<br />
como un acuerdo<br />
entre un corazón y dos pulmones.<br />
<br />
Tarareo<br />
porque las palabras engañan.<br />
Si fuera posible,<br />
tararearía<br />
este poemmmmmmmmmmma. <br />
<br />
<br />© Bruce Dean Willishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18264879980894296560noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2004914140597501086.post-47936449989286863652013-06-26T15:41:00.001-05:002013-07-11T11:03:33.901-05:00de-cor-arA new room, more than one empty shelf,<br />
spaces to fill with something about myself...<br />
<br />
Brazilian books, a museum catalog<br />
of Mexican art, a stylized frog<br />
from Colombia made of clay,<br />
a Chilean invitation for a special day,<br />
en eclipse that was a gift for the wall, <br />
more books to display to all<br />
the visitors, some orchestral works from Brazil,<br />
a brightly colored mug from the top of the hill<br />
at Sugarloaf, a Taino statuette,<br />
a Literature in Spanish encyclopedia set,<br />
books on cinematic splendor and Panama's gold,<br />
a compendium of maps from New Spain of old,<br />
an Amazonian atlas, and from Paraty<br />
a wooden boat a colleague gave to me,<br />
a calendar in Portuguese, <br />
and bookending all of these,<br />
works by Fuentes and García Marquez. <br />
But up in the corners where the shelves are darkest,<br />
there are many more spaces to fill...<br />
<br />
and it may be that to never fill them, I will.<br />
<br />
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© Bruce Dean Willishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18264879980894296560noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2004914140597501086.post-22636150945017331622013-05-18T17:46:00.001-05:002013-05-19T08:39:59.727-05:00diaphany<div style="font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0976563); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191, 107, 82, 0.496094); ">It didn't catch my eye;</div><div style="font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0976563); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191, 107, 82, 0.496094); ">my eye caught it,</div><div style="font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0976563); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191, 107, 82, 0.496094); ">a play of light and lift. </div><div style="font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0976563); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191, 107, 82, 0.496094); ">You see what you want, after all.</div><div style="font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0976563); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191, 107, 82, 0.496094); ">Seek and ye shall find.</div><div style="font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0976563); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191, 107, 82, 0.496094); "><br></div><div style="font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0976563); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191, 107, 82, 0.496094); ">Red, slung in an arc between two trees</div><div style="font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0976563); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191, 107, 82, 0.496094); ">it pulsed back and forth</div><div style="font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0976563); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191, 107, 82, 0.496094); ">in the sunlight that turned green gold.</div><div style="font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0976563); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191, 107, 82, 0.496094); "><br></div><div style="font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0976563); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191, 107, 82, 0.496094); ">I wanted to escape from the meeting </div><div style="font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0976563); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191, 107, 82, 0.496094); ">- it hung just beyond the threshold -</div><div style="font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0976563); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191, 107, 82, 0.496094); ">to lie in it, to swing in it,</div><div style="font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0976563); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191, 107, 82, 0.496094); ">hammock's ghost</div><div style="font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0976563); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191, 107, 82, 0.496094); ">suspended between transcendences</div><div style="font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0976563); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191, 107, 82, 0.496094); ">firm while soft, round while straight.</div><div style="font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0976563); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191, 107, 82, 0.496094); "><br></div><div style="font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0976563); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191, 107, 82, 0.496094); ">But there was no breeze.</div><div style="font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0976563); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191, 107, 82, 0.496094); ">The flow and slack </div><div style="font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0976563); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191, 107, 82, 0.496094); ">streamed through the red firehose</div><div style="font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0976563); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191, 107, 82, 0.496094); ">that happened to curve and dip </div><div style="font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0976563); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191, 107, 82, 0.496094); ">among the trees -</div><div style="font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0976563); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191, 107, 82, 0.496094); ">in this way only did the realm of fact catch my eye.</div><div style="font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0976563); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191, 107, 82, 0.496094); "><br></div><div style="font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0976563); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191, 107, 82, 0.496094); ">In the sway of fantasy it mattered not</div><div style="font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0976563); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191, 107, 82, 0.496094); ">and I was back on my back</div><div style="font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0976563); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191, 107, 82, 0.496094); ">in the red hammock on the slim balcony</div><div style="font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0976563); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191, 107, 82, 0.496094); ">overlooking Botafogo</div><div style="font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0976563); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191, 107, 82, 0.496094); ">and the threads of possibilities</div><div style="font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0976563); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191, 107, 82, 0.496094); ">and continuities </div><div style="font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0976563); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191, 107, 82, 0.496094); ">extending playfully and joyfully</div><div style="font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0976563); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191, 107, 82, 0.496094); ">into a</div><div style="font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0976563); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191, 107, 82, 0.496094); ">transcendence</div><div style="font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0976563); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191, 107, 82, 0.496094); ">as firm as possible for being so soft</div><div style="font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0976563); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191, 107, 82, 0.496094); ">as round as possible for being so straight</div><div style="font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0976563); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191, 107, 82, 0.496094); ">the web, the mesh, the arc, the arrow</div><div style="font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0976563); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191, 107, 82, 0.496094); ">hammock or hose</div><div style="font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0976563); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191, 107, 82, 0.496094); ">of me, on me, under me</div><div style="font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0976563); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191, 107, 82, 0.496094); ">restraining my pulsing thoughts</div><div style="font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0976563); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191, 107, 82, 0.496094); ">and releasing them into the sky,</div><div style="font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0976563); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191, 107, 82, 0.496094); "><br></div><div style="font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0976563); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191, 107, 82, 0.496094); ">a diaphany...</div><div style="font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0976563); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191, 107, 82, 0.496094); "><br></div><div style="font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0976563); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191, 107, 82, 0.496094); "><br></div><div style="font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0976563); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191, 107, 82, 0.496094); ">Next I looked,</div><div style="font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0976563); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191, 107, 82, 0.496094); ">the ghost was gone.</div><div style="font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0976563); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191, 107, 82, 0.496094); ">In its lack</div><div style="font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0976563); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191, 107, 82, 0.496094); ">I placed the seed</div><div style="font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0976563); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191, 107, 82, 0.496094); ">for this poem</div><div style="font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0976563); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191, 107, 82, 0.496094); 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-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0976563); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191, 107, 82, 0.496094); ">Note: I, too, thought I had made up the word "diaphany," with the meaning of diaphanous epiphany. I'm proud to join a chorus willing this word and its meaning into wider understanding: http://www.stuartdavis.com/blog/diaphany</div><div style="font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0976563); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191, 107, 82, 0.496094); "><br></div><div style="font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0976563); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191, 107, 82, 0.496094); "><br></div>© Bruce Dean Willishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18264879980894296560noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2004914140597501086.post-47516305219059228202013-05-11T18:12:00.001-05:002013-05-12T18:42:46.642-05:00The shape of your palm<div style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0976563); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191, 107, 82, 0.496094); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px;">
There is no geography</div>
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like the shape of a palm,</div>
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like the particular map of what is a palm,</div>
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to convey to the practiced soothsayer</div>
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the angle of the thumb's rays</div>
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the direction of the prevailing fingers</div>
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the lifelines of high tide flush,</div>
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each jointed frond opposing,</div>
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thirsty for life, </div>
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splayed to best caress the light</div>
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even as the winds spin their prints and whorls </div>
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and something like the bark of a tree </div>
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grows rough</div>
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and grows</div>
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hewn.</div>
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There is no cartography</div>
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like the shadow of a palm,</div>
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when it gestures, when it dances</div>
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in the splashed moon,</div>
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in the heaving tide sucked and spit,</div>
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in the celestial hand</div>
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to which it clings, it </div>
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cleaves,</div>
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for dear</div>
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life. </div>
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© Bruce Dean Willishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18264879980894296560noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2004914140597501086.post-40117727481670192202013-05-04T07:51:00.001-05:002013-05-19T08:34:04.833-05:00vista relativaNo Rio de Janeiro<br>
o Morro Dois Irmãos<br>
tem vista espetacular<br>
o Pão de Açúcar<br>
tem vista privilegiada<br>
o Cristo Redentor<br>
tem vista panorâmica <br>
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Os favelados do morro<br>
têm vista espetacular<br>
os ricos de Ipanema<br>
têm vista privilegiada<br>
os voadores de asa delta<br>
têm vista panorâmica <br>
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Mas no Rio de Janeiro<br>
a vista mais espetacular<br>
mais privilegiada<br>
mais panorâmica<br>
é a vista que têm<div>ainda<br>
os urubus</div>© Bruce Dean Willishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18264879980894296560noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2004914140597501086.post-86982525852584285952013-04-05T11:13:00.001-05:002013-04-05T11:13:05.095-05:00Entre Andes y AlpesEntre Andes y Alpes<br />
anda Aurelio,<br />
astrónomo alemán-araucano.<br />
Astros analiza<br />
antes de la alborada alborotada,<br />
ansioso ausculta<br />
la aurícula de la galaxia. <br />
Acostado abordo<br />
del aeroplano transatlántico,<br />
Aurelio se imagina<br />
sus pasos por la Vía Láctea.<br />
Cuando arriba a Antofagasta,<br />
al Paranal, Atacama, <br />
o cuando asciende en el ascensor<br />
que parte de la estación de Jungfraujoch,<br />
afirma, acierta, agradece<br />
algunos átomos que, al azar,<br />
armaron la arquitectura,<br />
el andamiaje de su anatomía,<br />
para que sea él, Aurelio - <br />
andino-alpino, <br />
astuto astronauta anclado en gráficas - <br />
el Adán avanzado,<br />
el adelantado audaz, <br />
que abre el espacio<br />
como las mitades de una manzana<br />
algebraica<br />
algorítmica<br />
cabal. © Bruce Dean Willishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18264879980894296560noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2004914140597501086.post-4997993961304553122013-03-27T13:51:00.000-05:002013-03-27T13:51:27.660-05:00Animating Neruda"The most important living poet of the Spanish language," an oft-repeated epithet in Roberto Ampuero's <i>The Neruda Case</i>, situates the reader chronologically before 1973, before the September 11 coup in Neruda's and Ampuero's native Chile that led to the death of freely elected socialist president Salvador Allende and the power grab of Augusto Pinochet. Certainly still one of the most important poets--not just in Spanish but in any language--Neruda also makes for a tempting literary character. Not unlike Antonio Skármeta's <i>Ardiente paciencia</i> (1985; germ of the 1994 Italian film <i>Il Postino</i>), in which the master poet befriends a postman and unveils for him the power of metaphor, Ampuero's <i>El caso Neruda </i>(2008; English translation by Carolina de Robertis 2012) animates "don Pablo" through an imagined friendship with the protagonist.<br />
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<br />In this instance the protagonist is the Cuban-American detective Cayetano Brulé, already known from Ampuero's earlier novels. But in <i>The Neruda Case</i> we learn the origin of Brulé's profession: it is Neruda himself who "creates" Brulé as a detective--encouraging him to try on that line of work as just one more disguise in the parade of disguises we all wear in life, as the poet says--and giving him his first case. In his dying days, the repentant poet assigns Brulé the task of searching for someone from Neruda's past, and the search takes Brulé from Chile to Mexico, Cuba, East Germany, and Bolivia before returning to Chile in the final hours of Allende's government. Brulé assumes that his search has to do with alleviating Neruda's cancer, but we learn, along with Brulé, that this particular "cancer" is best understood metaphorically: Neruda is consumed by regrets stemming from his series of lovers--Josie, Maria Antonieta, Delia, Matilde--and wants to achieve a certain peace with his conscience as a dying wish.<br />
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The choppy narrative shows us the mistakes and false starts of Brulé's learning curve as a detective, always hinting meta-fictionally at the process of detective-novel writing through Brulé's analyses of the Georges Simenon novels he reads along the way. Neruda has given Brulé the novels, featuring the French detective Jules Maigret, as "how-to" primers for the incipient detective. But both Neruda and Brulé hypothesize the absolute incompetence that the European literary detectives such as Maigret, Holmes, Poirot, Marple, et al would display if forced to operate in their beloved but chaotic Latin America. <br />
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Neruda's poetry appears throughout the novel, quoted by admirers and detractors alike. Brulé, often quite frustrated with or disillusioned by Neruda, experiences something of a demystification of the great poet who has so recently (in the narrative's chronology) won the Nobel prize. But chapters written in Neruda's autobiographical voice simply humanize him more than demystify him, and so do the final chapters depicting the near simultaneous demises of the Allende government and of Neruda himself.<br />
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An important motif throughout the narrative is "Latin America." At Mexico City's glorious and glorified Museum of History and Anthropology, Brulé has an uncomfortable but profound epiphany: "For the first time, he was clearly aware of the magnitude of disaster dealt to the indigenous people of the Americas by the invasion and domination of white men, whose blood, he could not deny as he glanced at himself in a windowpane, flowed copiously through his veins" (75). He realizes that he could "never again be the same Latin American as he'd been before": proud of the "legendary past of Havana and the vague origins of Valparaíso, [he] now understood that Mexicans, as a people, inhabited a realm unknown to him, rooted in millennial depths unimaginable to someone from an island that had barely five hundred years of recorded history" (75).<br />
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Brulé can recognize diversity within the vast geography of Latin America, but also commonality, as in his repeated rejection of European detective methodology as unsuitable in Latin America, or when, sharing the bed of a frank and casual lover in East Berlin, he identifies with "the Latin American school of love, which preferred amorous encounters with tentative beginnings and gradual consummation, wrapped in romanticism, and always initiated by the man." In contrast, his lover's "female emancipation, born of true socialism, made him feel uncomfortable and inhibited." (184). <br />
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Brulé is simultaneously undergoing the disintegration of his marriage, and if love is inevitable in a novel about the man who penned <i>Veinte poemas de amor</i> [...], <i>Cien sonetos de amor</i>, etc., then it is depicted here most often as a love of little endurance: Neruda's serial relationships, Brulé's failed attempts to save his marriage, and the tangled love affairs that Brulé must untwine in order to find the information he needs to resolve Neruda's nagging deathbed doubt. I think the novel entertains and engages most as an extended meditation on the ephemeral nature of love, of power, of life itself.© Bruce Dean Willishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18264879980894296560noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2004914140597501086.post-64046177213441934442013-03-06T23:00:00.000-06:002013-03-06T23:01:57.251-06:00Wall of Macaws<div style="text-align: center;">
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Brazilian artistry on display at <a href="http://www.oveleiro.com/" target="_blank">O Veleiro Bed & Breakfast</a> (Hospedagem Domiciliar), </div>
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Botafogo, Rio de Janeiro</div>
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<br /></div>
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© Bruce Dean Willishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18264879980894296560noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2004914140597501086.post-74400305011894550802013-02-16T14:43:00.000-06:002013-02-16T14:43:49.528-06:00Surgiu do Encante - O que foi? Cobra?<br />
- Não.<br />
- Peixe-boi? Tartaruga?<br />
- Não.<br />
- Boto? Iara?<br />
- Não.<br />
- Integrante dos Tucumanus? Do Teatro Eden?<br />
- Não.<br />
- Petróleo.<br />
- Também não.<br />
- Cadáver? Arca de tesouro?<br />
- Não.<br />
- Encomenda de mármore da Epoca da Borracha?<br />
- Não.<br />
- Godzila?<br />
- Tão pouca imaginação que é que você tem.<br />
- O ovo original do povo original?<br />
- Não.<br />
- Automóveis da Fordlândia?<br />
- Não. <br />
...<br />
- Nem você sabe. Esqueceu, né?<br />
- Isso mesmo, cara. O que surgiu do Encante, foi a amnésia... <br />
<br />
<br />
© Bruce Dean Willishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18264879980894296560noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2004914140597501086.post-88176864747869788642013-01-26T15:49:00.000-06:002013-01-26T15:51:00.161-06:00dessarte<div style="text-align: center;">
<strong><span style="color: #274e13;">dessarte </span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="color: #274e13;">é desse jeito, desse estilo</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="color: #274e13;">mas por que não, também,</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="color: #274e13;">é dessa pintura, desse romance, dessa sinfonia</span></strong></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<strong><span style="color: #274e13;">porque dessarte sobe</span></strong></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<strong><span style="color: #274e13;">e desce à arte</span></strong></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<strong><span style="color: #274e13;"><em>para desearte</em> / para te desejar dessarte</span></strong></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<strong><span style="color: #274e13;">te desejar dessa comédia, dessa canção, dessa danza</span></strong></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<strong><span style="color: #274e13;">te desejo </span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="color: #274e13;">desse filme</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="color: #274e13;">quando não</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="color: #274e13;">dessa estátua</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="color: #274e13;">e também</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="color: #274e13;">deste poema </span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="color: #274e13;">te desejo panartisticamente</span></strong></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<strong><span style="color: #274e13;">e de todas as belas artes</span></strong></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<strong><span style="color: #274e13;">desejo</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: #274e13;">dessarte</span></strong><br />
<br />
<br />
</div>
© Bruce Dean Willishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18264879980894296560noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2004914140597501086.post-50769857276264652312013-01-19T22:20:00.000-06:002013-01-19T22:22:54.559-06:00Dilema del castorCuando lo otro<br />
se abre y cae<br />
de bruces<br />
sin chistar<br />
ante ti<br />
<br />
y recuerdas<br />
del castor<br />
la lucha desigual<br />
entre construir y destruir,<br />
entre el medio ambiente<br />
y el ambiente que se me dio<br />
<br />
y contemplas<br />
del castor<br />
su albergue<br />
su alberca<br />
su averno<br />
su avena<br />
su albahaca<br />
su alma<br />
<br />
percibes,<br />
por si ves,<br />
que las ideas inundan<br />
el cerebro, <br />
un ser ebrio<br />
<br />
y la fría razón <br />
albergada en su iglú<br />
por las buenas <br />
o por las miles<br />
tiene que bañarse <br />
con las chispitas<br />
de iluminación, <br />
peces sorprendidos<br />
que se nos escapan como muslos,<br />
la mitad llenos de lumbre,<br />
la mitad llenos de calor.<br />
<br />
Maldito castor que todo lo destruyes <br />
para construir tu propio mundo.<br />
Roe roe roedor.<br />
Bendito seas, castor, cuando destruyes <br />
con medida para crear un mundo a tu medida.<br />
Roe roe roedor.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />© Bruce Dean Willishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18264879980894296560noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2004914140597501086.post-46957782986654337452012-12-20T11:26:00.000-06:002013-01-07T10:32:11.617-06:00Entrevista: Profecía MayaEl periodista Juan Miret, nacionalmente conocido editor de <a href="http://hispanodetulsa.com/">HispanodeTulsa.com</a>, me ha entrevistado con el motivo del mentadísimo calendario maya y el supuesto fin del mundo...<br />
<br />
Salió muy bien la entrevista, y Juan la ha armado en YouTube de manera muy profesional, como siempre. ¡Mil gracias, Juan, por la oportunidad!<br />
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