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, May 14, 2012

El cofre de tesoro

Hallarás este cofre de tesoro
en alguna antología ocultada,
y una vez la gran tapa levantada,
verás puras frases labradas de oro.

Voces, palabras, y signos de un foro,
las letras en multitud combinada,
formarán la escena cristalizada:
mímicas del habla, como de un loro.

No podrás vencer la amarga sorpresa.
No hay cálice, corona ni amuleto,
ni rastros de piratería ilesa.

Mas descubrirás el magno secreto:
el cofre es la poética belleza,
y el único botín, este soneto.

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