
UNITED COLORS OF RESPONSIBILITY – Seals personal and rainbows over the eyes, in the fields of sins
SEALS – Job (The Bible): The hands of every man he closes in a seal, so that each recognizes his works. REDEMPTION – S. Yesenin: Swan song shakes the rainbow eye. For those who fall, sacrifice redeemed all sin. DEADLY FRUITS – Aeschylus: The field of guilt, fruits death. TWICE – Talmud (Hebrew text): Who committed twice a shame, no …
Read More »FAN YUN, POETRY OF FAREWELL: As regards the time passing, observes the snow, and even the flowers
POETRY OF FAREWELL “To the east and west walls of Luoyang, long salute the passing time. Before she left the snow that seemed flowers, now are the flowers that seem to snow.” (Fan Yun)
Read More »LEONARDO DA VINCI: The genius who managed to fully embody the spirit of the Renaissance
A BOOK WITHOUT TIME, THE PRINCE: Niccolo Machiavelli, ie profit and virtue, in the hazy boundaries of power
Few books, like this, books remain timeless. Suggestion of writing, combined with the criteria of logic and passion, make it the object and subject of the issues relating to power and success. If you think – reading it – to remain indifferent, you’re wrong. Profit and virtue, together to concerns of power, are a reality that goes beyond the boundaries. …
Read More »CONTEMPORARY POETRY ARGENTINA, RODOLFO ALONSO: Suggestions, in the most intimate memory
CONFABULAR – De Salud o nada “Es la llanura el hijo perfecto los que abrimos la mañana con los dientes viviendo hasta aquí arriba el vino de mano en mano el poema de mano en mano la sangre de mano en mano sí es verdad habría que decirlo a todo el mundo.” CONFABULATE – Health or nothing “It is …
Read More »ANDREA MANTEGNA: The master of the spatial layout, and majestic perspectives that smell Tuscan influences
ANDREA DEL VERROCCHIO: Painter of the Italian Renaissance. Among his pupils, Leonardo da Vinci, Botticelli and Perugino
CHILEAN CONTEMPORARY WRITERS: Nona Fernandez, Mapocho
A novel – Mapocho – by Nona Fernandez (Municipal Literary Prize, 2003). In it, the author discusses the Fernandez interpretation of the historian’s mission, in the foundation process of the nation. You can discover the places of the ethnic, sexual and political minorities within the national project, and the strategies of resistance employed by these groups. The novel, inverts the …
Read More »THE SOUND OF YOUR LAST GOODBYE: A poem by Luis Sepúlveda
“The last sound of your goodbye, I told him that I knew nothing and that it was the time required to learn the why of the matter. So, between the stones I knew that sum is to unite and subtract that leaves us alone and empty. That the colors reflect the naive desire of the eye. That solfeggi and the …
Read More »ENRY ROUSSEAU: The candor archaic
FRENCH CONTEMPORARY POETRY: Henri Michaux, from “La Nuit Remue”, Council on the pines
“A monotonous noise does not necessarily calm. An auger not calm anyone, except perhaps the foreman. Still, it is among the monotonous noise that you have more chance of finding the calm. What is nice in the sound of the wind blowing on a forest pines, is that this noise has no edges, is round. But it has nothing to …
Read More »SPANISH CONTEMPORARY POETRY: Ángel Guinda, Avid Life
“Tu boca vertical me escupió oblicuo y no ha dejado tu sangre de rodar; más que en la mesa, al volcarse una botella, su dentro se derrama. Y esa sangre no puede coagular sino en mi pecho, en esa bomba músculo que llaman corazón y yo taberna. Bebo mosto de alumbramiento, negro alcohol espejo de tu ausencia. Llevo toda la …
Read More »FERREIRA GULLAR, ALL POETRY: None, vacancies
NAO HÁ VAGAS “O preço do feijão não cabe no poema. O preço do arroz não cabe no poema. Não cabem no poema o gás a luz o telefone a sonegação do leite da carne do açúcar do pão. O funcionário público não cabe no poema com seu salário de fome sua vida fechada em arquivos. Como não cabe no …
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