#spanish poetry
Vicente Aleixandre, tr. by Timothy Baland, from A Longing for the Light: Selected Poems; “Mother, Mother”
Vicente Aleixandre, tr. by Lewis Hyde, from A Longing for the Light: Selected Poems; “My Voice”
Your kiss gave me an upset stomach.
Vicente Aleixandre, tr. by Lewis Hyde, from A Longing for the Light: Selected Poems; “Death or the waiting room”
Vicente Aleixandre, tr. by Lewis Hyde, from A Longing for the Light: Selected Poems; “Death or the waiting room”
Vicente Aleixandre, tr. by W.S Merwin,fromA Longing for the Light: Selected Poems; “Closed”
[Text ID: “bankrupt stars.”]
Whatever the reason, there always seems to be a fog of tension and blood.
Vicente Aleixandre, ed. by Lewis Hyde, from A Longing for the Light: Selected Poems
Pedro Salinas, tr. by Ruth Katz Crispin, from Memory in My Hands: The Love Poetry of Pedro Salinas; “The voice I owe to you”
[Text ID: “It is from you that I always come, and always / it is to you that I must return.”]
Pedro Salinas, tr. by Ruth Katz Crispin, from Memory in My Hands: The Love Poetry of Pedro Salinas; “The voice I owe to you”
[Text ID: “thanks to you, to your hand.”]
Pedro Salinas, tr. by Ruth Katz Crispin, from Memory in My Hands: The Love Poetry of Pedro Salinas; “The voice I owe to you”
[Text ID: “From your eyes, from them alone, / comes the light that guides”]
Pedro Salinas, tr. by Ruth Katz Crispin, from Memory in My Hands: The Love Poetry of Pedro Salinas; “The voice I owe to you”
[Text ID: “and the longing / to love, to love you, more.”]
Pedro Salinas, tr. by Ruth Katz Crispin, from Memory in My Hands: The Love Poetry of Pedro Salinas; “The voice I owe to you”
[Text ID: “I don’t need time to know / what you are like: we knew / each other like lightning.”]
“Quiero hacer contigo lo que la primavera hace con los cerezos.”
“I want to do with you what the spring does with the cherries.”
~Pablo Neruda
La Primavera esta aqui! Finalmente! <3
@ Harper Memorial Bathroom