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Balcanes Literatura
A Note : Wisława Szymborska / David Bates
Life is the only way to get covered in leaves, catch your breath on the sand, rise on wings; to be a dog, or stroke its warm fur; to tell pain from everything it’s not; to squeeze inside events, dawdle in views, to seek the least of all possible mistakes. An extraordinary chance to remember … Continue reading
I Am With You : Kassák Lajos / Manuel Alvarez Bravo
In front of you I go you in front of me the early sun’s gold chain jingles on my wrist. Where are you going — I ask you answer — how do I know. I speed up my walk but you speed all the more. I in front of you you in front of me. … Continue reading
Izet Sarajlic : Poetry is on the side of love
“Poetry is on the side of love” Interview with Izet Sarajlic, Bosnian historian, philosopher, poet Poetry has been part of your life for half a century. How do you see this art-form today? Izet Sarajlic: I’m sorry to see that poetry has lost the place it should occupy in people’s lives. Poets are partly responsible for … Continue reading
The books are whispering – Simic / Heidi Mulder Art
In the library, by Charles Simic There’s a book called ‘A Dictionary of Angels’. No one has opened it in fifty years, I know, because when I did, The covers creaked, the pages Crumbled. There I discovered That angels were once as plentiful As species of flies. The sky at dusk Used to be thick … Continue reading
Ivo Andric – Un puente sobre el Drina
Ivo Andric: Un puente sobre el Drina Por Alejandro Lillo Puente: ( 1) Construcción de cualquier clase hecha sobre un río o un corte del terreno para pasar de una orilla o de un lado a otro ( … ) (9) Lo que sirve para acercar a personas o cosas; particularmente a personas, si existe entre ellas tirantez o enemistad”. … Continue reading
Izet Sarajlic: Poeta de los Balcanes
“Del lunes se debe hablar el lunes” Izet Sarajlic es uno de los poetas líricos más importantes de Europa. En los años 50, el autor bosnio rompió los moldes del realismo y produjo una fecunda simbiosis de modernismo, neoexpresionismo y surrealismo. Sus obras registran de modo admirable la confluencia de las experiencias individual e histórica … Continue reading
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