Category: Poetry

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They did not let me, by Amira Atiya Abu Al-Husain

لم يتركوني كي أحتضن عظام أخي.لم يسمحوا لي بأن أقترب من الجثة أيضًا.كنت أصرخ، وهم يصرخون:“لا تفعلي ذلك، أرجوكِ لا تنظري!” فأجبَروني على ألّا أنظر،لآخر مرة،لنظرة الوداع. لم يسمحوا لي، خوفًا من هول المنظر.لكنني أخبرتهم:سيكون جميلًا، حتى لو كان أخي بضع عظام. أرجوكم، لا تفعلوا الشيء ذاتهعندما نجد جثمان أخي الآخر.أرجوكم، لا تفعلوا. أعلم أنكم خائفون عليّ،كي لا أصاب بالصدمة.لكني صُدمتُ منذ الثالثة من عمري،حين … Continue reading They did not let me, by Amira Atiya Abu Al-Husain

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Books, literature, poesia, Poetry, translation

Spontaneous me, by Walt Whitman 🌿🖋📖

“Spontaneous Me” is one of Walt Whitman’s most daring and sensual poems, taken from the “Children of Adam” section of Leaves of Grass. A hymn to the instinctive nature of human desire and its connection with the natural world. In this article you will find the original text in English, along with the translations into Italian and Spanish, with a reflection on the bodily and naturalistic language that made Whitman so revolutionary for his time.

“Spontaneous Me” è una delle poesie più audaci e sensuali di Walt Whitman, tratta dalla sezione “Children of Adam” di Leaves of Grass. Un inno alla natura istintiva del desiderio umano e alla sua connessione con il mondo naturale. In questo articolo trovate il testo originale in inglese, insieme alle traduzioni in italiano e spagnolo, con una riflessione sul linguaggio corporeo e naturalistico che rese Whitman così rivoluzionario per il suo tempo. Continue reading Spontaneous me, by Walt Whitman 🌿🖋📖

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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.
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literature, Poetry

The poetical universe of Federico García Lorca ✒️🇪🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Federico García Lorca’s late poetry feels instinctive, even wild — but beneath its sensory surface lies a precise symbolic grammar. In the Diván del Tamarit and the Sonetos del amor oscuro, his two posthumous masterworks, the moon signals death as much as beauty; blood fuses erotic desire with mortal wound; running water means life while standing water means death; and the horse gallops toward the abyss of the duende. These are not decorative images — they are a system, one Lorca spent his entire career perfecting and brought to its fullest expression in the collections he would never see published. This post explores the symbolic world of Lorca’s final poetry, with close readings of key poems and reference to the critical essays in our new bilingual English edition. Learn to read the signs — and Lorca will never read the same way again. Continue reading The poetical universe of Federico García Lorca ✒️🇪🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

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Books, poesia, Poetry, translation

As consequent, by Walt Whitman 🌿🖋📖

“As Consequent, etc.” is a little-known praise by Walt Whitman to the river as a metaphor for life and poetry itself. In this article you will find the original text in English flanked by Italian and Spanish translations, with a brief comment on the symbolic meaning of water in Whitman’s work and the challenges of making his verse free in other languages. Continue reading As consequent, by Walt Whitman 🌿🖋📖

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