Sunday, January 26, 2014

JUAN GELMAN ~







Juan Gelman
b. 1930, in Buenos Aires ~ 2014





History



Studying history,

dates, battles, letters written on stone,

famous phrases, luminaries smelling of sanctity,

I see only dark, metallurgical,

mining, sewing, slaves' hands

creating the brilliance, the adventure of the world,

they died and their fingernails still grew.



[translated by Robert Marquez]
 Latin American Revolutionary Poetry
(Monthly Review 1974)