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POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
Francisco Henriquez Rosa was born in Santiago, Dominican Republic in 1957. He graduated from the Dominican Journalism Institute in 1979 and in the same year immigrated to New York City where he attended Hostos Community College. His poetry has been published in magazines and newspapers throughout Argentina, the Dominican Republic, New York, and Florida. He currently lives in Orlando where he is the coordinator of the writing group “La Tertulia de Orlando.”
Ariel Francisco is the author of A Sinking Ship is Still a Ship (Burrow Press, 2020) and All My Heroes Are Broke (C&R Press, 2017). A poet and translator born in the Bronx to Dominican and Guatemalan parents and raised in Miami, his work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Academy of American Poets, The American Poetry Review, The Florida Review, The New Yorker and elsewhere. The Miami New Times named him one of the Five Florida Writers to Watch in 2019.
Also by Ariel Francisco:
All My Heroes Are Broke
Along the East River and in the Bronx Young Men Were Singing
Bell Peppers and Beef Blues
Previously in Glass: A Journal of Poetry:
Before Snowfall, After Rain
Upon Encountering a Street Mural of Super Mario, I Think of My Mother
Canción Y Palabra
La canción
conjuga con el viento
la sonoridad
de la vida.
La palabra
como alacrán de ternuras
te pica profundamente
el corazón
que todavía sangra.
La canción es la nube
empapada de alegría
que permea la vida
de sílabas y mieles.
La palabra
es el don innegable
que dioses mancos
calcaron con la lengua
haciéndose verbo
y carne iluminada.
Song And Word
The song
conjugates with the wind,
the richness
of life.
The word
like the scorpion of tenderness
that stings your heart
so deeply
you’re still bleeding.
The song is a cloud
soaked in joy
that seeps into the life
of syllables and honey.
The word
is the undeniable gift
that deformed gods
traced with their tongues,
becoming verbs
and flesh illuminated.
Glass: A Journal of Poetry is published monthly by Glass Poetry Press.
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