READIN: la Universidad Desconocida: week 2

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See my reading list for what I'm interested in this year.

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🦋 la Universidad Desconocida: week 2

I presented my chapbook of biblical verse, and got good notes. Primarily -- I should keep my poems short and intense, and resonant; anchor the ideas in imagery; and surprise the reader. The favorite was "Esquéleto":

Esquéleto
Esto son mis huesos
desnudos; vestilos
en carne, inspirámelo
el Espíritu a mí.
Planteá Vos la sembra espiritual
que crezca y florezca profecía
derramámelo
fornicámelo
que sueñe yo los sueños
de iluminación

Readings for next week are Latin American vanguard poems, a beautiful selection (which somehow manages to omit Pasos and Cuadras).

posted morning of Saturday, May third, 2014
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Three reading recommendations I got while we were talking about the chapbook -- Aura by Carlos Fuentes, Hospital BritÃ¡nico by HÃ©ctor Viel Temperley, La sodomÃa en la nueva EspaÃ±a by Luis Felipe Fabre.

posted morning of May third, 2014 by The Modesto Kid

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