Sunday, April 6, 2014

Sergio Ortiz

I have to highlight a poem I just saw in Hinchas de Poesia issue 3, fall 2010--"Launching Pads" by Sergio Ortiz here. It has a great repetitive structure that really works with where he goes. Few people can write these kinds of short poems and do well, but I really like this one.

Here's an excerpt:

Launching Pads  [Plataforms de Lanzamientos]



between hatred and garland lives an Esperantist wolf   
between a cactus and a lute there’s roughness of wind  [...]

entre el odio y la guirnalda vive un lobo esperantista
entre el cacto y la dulzaina existe rudeza de viento [...]

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