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Two Poems

  • by Robert Rincón
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  • May, 2018

Me enseñaron a pedir
con las manos juntas
y a recibir con ellas abiertas
todos los días y todas las noches .

el puño que forma espiga
arrebata lo forjado en gracia

hacer una pausa y levantar mis manos
en alabanza al sueño?

el autoengaño es una escuela
donde sobresalgo en las notas
y mis manos se cansan de trillar el trigo

con deseos como maestros
y un alma que no se atreve ni
a que todo su cuerpo se arrastre

Podría tomar el pan
como camino y dar como oración

Sigo cubriéndome la cara
todos los días y todas las noches .

 

Aliento

para agarrarme fuerte a estos trastes
muevo los dedos al pecho
y golpeo un acorde
que me detiene y ve mi cuerpo
melodioso

sino dormir en un pergamino
que se escribe
con las dudas de un hombre
al que se le pasa la vida
sellando el pacto que el Nombre
obliga

tal vez irresponsable
como un hermano

cuando despierte
que una balada me lleve al latido que todo
armoniza

(de Emaús y el vientre de arena [Emaús y el vientre de arena], 2016)

Traducido por Arthur Dixon

  • Robert Rincón

Robert Rincón (Valencia, 1985) is a poet and musician with a degree in Education and minors in Language and Literature. He completed a master’s in Latin American Literature. He is Editor in Chief of the journal Poesía of the Universidad de Carabobo. He has published two verse collections: Mercaderes [Merchants] (2010) and Emaús y el vientre de arena [Emmaus and the belly of sand] (2016). The latter was awarded the fifth Premio Nacional Universitario de Literatura. He is currently working toward a doctorate in Social Sciences with a minor in Cultural Studies at the Universidad de Carabobo.

  • Arthur Malcolm Dixon
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Arthur Malcolm Dixon is co-founder, lead translator, and Managing Editor of Latin American Literature Today. His book-length translations include the novels Immigration: The Contest by Carlos Gámez Pérez and There Are Not So Many Stars by Isaí Moreno, both from Katakana Editores, and the poetry collections Intensive Care by Arturo Gutiérrez Plaza and Wild West by Alejandro Castro, both from Alliteration Publishing. He works as a community interpreter in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where from 2020 to 2023 he was a Tulsa Artist Fellow.

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