Category: Poemas

español, Literatura, literature, Poemas, poesia, Poetry

Gacela del amor con cien años, de García Lorca ✒️📃🇪🇸

“Gacela del amor con cien años” — the Gacela of Love with a Hundred Years — is one of the most urgently lyrical poems in Federico García Lorca’s Dívan del Tamarit, the Arabic-Andalusian collection he completed in 1934 and never saw published. It is a poem about the absolute persistence of love: a passion so elemental that neither walls, nor distance, nor the weight of a century can contain it. The poem moves with the breathless forward pressure that defines Lorca’s mature gacelas — anaphoric, accumulative, driven by a symbolic logic of blood, water, and unstoppable desire.

This post presents the poem in all three of its languages: the original Spanish, a new English translation, and a new Italian translation, both by Enzo Martinelli for Blue Phoenix Editions. The trilingual facing-page format allows readers to trace Lorca’s imagery across languages — and to see, line by line, the choices every translation entails.

Read the poem — and the translator’s note on the decisions behind it. Continue reading Gacela del amor con cien años, de García Lorca ✒️📃🇪🇸

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Letteratura, literature, Poemas, poesia, Poetry, portugues

A nada imploram tuas mãos já coisas, por Fernando Pessoa 📃🖋🇵🇹

Ricardo Reis — Fernando Pessoa’s classical, Stoic heteronym — wrote some of modernism’s most austere and formally accomplished meditations on mortality. This commentary examines one of his finest odes: a poem in which a dead woman’s hands become things, her name is forgotten, and only the poem itself survives to preserve a single, anonymous smile.
Continue reading A nada imploram tuas mãos já coisas, por Fernando Pessoa 📃🖋🇵🇹

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Books, Poemas, poesia, poesie, Poetry

In questo momento bramoso e assorto, di Walt Whitman 🌿🖋📖

«This moment yearning and thoughtful» è una delle liriche più intense e meditative della sezione Calamus di Leaves of Grass: in pochi versi, Walt Whitman trasforma un istante di solitudine pensosa in un atto di fratellanza universale, immaginando legami profondi con sconosciuti sparsi in ogni angolo del mondo. Questo post ne analizza la struttura poetica, il tema del desiderio come forma di conoscenza, e il suo posto nella visione democratica e internazionalista che attraversa l’intera opera whitmaniana. Continue reading In questo momento bramoso e assorto, di Walt Whitman 🌿🖋📖

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Poemas, poesia, Poetry

The poet speaks by phone with his love, by Federico García Lorca 🇪🇸➡️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Federico García Lorca’s “El poeta habla por teléfono con el amor” is one of the most celebrated sonnets in the Sonetos del amor oscuro, his landmark posthumous collection of love poetry. Written during the final years of his life and never published by Lorca himself, this formally daring sonnet transforms the humble telephone call into a charged symbol of desire, distance, and longing. Through nature imagery mapped onto the body, a subtle erotic symbolism, and a unique structural variation within the classic Petrarchan form, Lorca crafts a poem of extraordinary emotional depth. First made available to the public in 1984, the Sonetos del amor oscuro are now recognised as the pinnacle of his lyric achievement. This critical analysis explores the poem’s symbolism, its place within Lorca’s poetic style, and its enduring popularity among readers and scholars of Spanish literature and twentieth-century poetry. Continue reading The poet speaks by phone with his love, by Federico García Lorca 🇪🇸➡️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

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