Posted in Poetry, tagged Escribo, Gloria Fuertes, I Write, Poesía, Poetry on January 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Escribo de Gloria Fuertes
Escribo sin modelo
A lo que salga,
Escribo de memoria
De repente,
Escribo sobre mí,
Sobre la gente,
Como un trágico juego
Sin cartas solitario,
Barajo los colores,
Los amores,
Las urbanas personas
Las violentas palabras
Y en vez de echarme al odio
O a la calle,
Escribo a lo que salga.
(De Historia de Gloria, Madrid: Cátedra).
I Write by Gloria Fuertes Translated by Alberto Duarte
I write [...]
Posted in Politics, tagged Buddhist, Burma, Burmese Monks, Burns, Free Burma, Global Oil, Himself to Death, Oil, Oil Crisis, Prices, Suicide, Thich Quang Duc, Vietnamese Monk on January 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Thich Quang Duc, what discipline held him to the flame? His expressionless face! The lightly placed arm on his lap! How would you feel in the presence of such a spectacle?
Photograph by Journalist Malcolm Browne
The Fuel that Scorched Him
What makes the oil crisis so apparent now is that even MSNBC is reporting that [...]
