Poem by Arthur Rimbaud from his poetry collection “Illuminations”, – Veillées – presented in its original version in French and in translation into English, Italian and Spanish, curated by Enzo Martinelli. Continue reading Veillées, de Arthur Rimbaud 💡✒️🇫🇷
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 ✒️🇪🇸🏴
Walt Whitman – Leaves of Grass – Children of Adam – 1855 – translated from English into Spanish 🇪🇸 and Italian 🇮🇹 by Enzo Martinelli © 2021 Enzo Martinelli To the garden, the world, anew ascending,Potent mates, daughters, sons, preluding,The love, the life of their bodies, meaning and being,Curious, here behold my resurrection, after slumber;The revolving cycles, in their wide sweep, having brought me again,Amorous, … Continue reading To the garden, the world, by Whitman 🌿🖋📖
from «Livro de versos». 1935, by Álvaro de Campos – heteronym of Fernando Pessoa – translated into English and Italian by Enzo Martinelli © 2021 Enzo Martinelli A música, sim a música…Piano banal do outro andar.A música em todo o caso, a música..Aquilo que vem buscar o choro imanenreDe toda a criatura humanaAquilo que vem torturar a calmaCom o desejo duma calma melhor…A música… Um … Continue reading A música, sim a música, by Pessoa 📃🖋🇵🇹
