#latin american poetry

[aguacerotropical]

La Impresora put out a free version of an anthology of trans boricua poetry for Transgender Day of Visbility. Click here to check it out .

There’s poems in both Spanish and English.

#Poesia #poetry #trans #puerto rico #Lgbtq #trans day of visibility #I didnt think 2 post it until now #latin american poetry #poesia latinoamericana #caribbean #caribbean poetry #poesia caribeña #Transgender

[britneyshakespeare]

Sombra de los Días a Venir

A Ivonne A. Bordelois

Mañana

me vestirán cenizas al alba,

me llenarán la boca de flores.

Aprenderé a dormir

en la memoria de un muro,

en la respiración

de un animal que sueña.

Alejandra Pizarnik

Tomorrow/they'll dress me in ash for the sunrise,/they'll fill my mouth with flowers./I'll learn to sleep/inside the memory of a wall,/on the breath/of a dreaming animal.

Translation by Yvette Siegert.

#poetry #poesía #alejandra pizarnik #poetry in translation #yvette siegert #latin american poetry #latina poets

[manwalksintobar]

Like You // Roque Dalton

Like you I love love, life, the sweet smell of things, the sky-blue landscape of January days. And my blood boils up and I laugh through eyes that have known the buds of tears. I believe the world is beautiful and that poetry, like bread, is for everyone. And that my veins don’t end in me but in the unanimous blood of those who struggle for life, love, little things, landscape and bread, the poetry of everyone.

translated from the Spanish by Jack Hirschman

#poetry #Roque Dalton #Salvadorean poetry #Latin American poetry #Latin America #bread #poems of praise #loving the world anyway #poetry for the people #proletarian poetry #blood #January #Jack Hirschman #El Salvador

[dreamy-conceit]

Porque la nada que está en todo igual que los siglos en los siglos se ocultaba incluso en aquellos encuentros en los que nunca estuviste y en los que habrías estado si las cosas fueran reales si no desaparecieras a cada momento preso de aquello que hay entre la noche y el tiempo gran desierto de tu oscura inexistencia. Translation: because the nothingness that is in everything the same as centuries within centuries hides itself even in those encounters in which you never were and in which you would have been if things were real if you did not disappear at every moment prisoner of that which exists between night and time great desert of your dark non-existence.

— Rodrigo Arriagada-Zubieta, 'Extrañeza'

#rodrigo arriagada-zubieta #latin american poetry #chilean poets #spanish language poetry #existential poetry

[dulcineadeltoboso]

#podcasts #latin american poetry #spanish podcast #podcastenespañol

[diana-andraste]

These bones shining in the night, these words like precious stones in the living throat of a petrified bird, this well-loved green, this hot lilac, this mysterious heart.

Alejandra Pizarnik, fragment 9 from Diana's Tree

Estos huesos brillando en la noche, estas palabras como piedras preciosas en la garganta viva de un pájaro petrificado, este verde muy amado, este lila caliente, este corazón misterioso.

Alejandra Pizarnik, 9, Árbol de Diana

#poetry #writing #alejandra pizarnik #diana's tree #argentina #latin american poets #1960s #surrealism

[garadinervi]

Voces y formas para Chile. Poemas ilustrados para el pueblo chileno, Centro de Arte y Comunicación (CAyC), Buenos Aires, 1973 [The CAyC Files, International Center for the Arts of the Americas (ICAA) at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX + Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA), New York, NY]

#graphic design #art #poetry #announcement #centro de arte y comunicación #cayc #the cayc files #the international center for the arts of the americas #the museum of fine arts houston #institute for studies on latin american art #islaa #1970s

[gael-garcia]

yeah Neruda (2016) really is that btch

#POETIC CINEMA #FR FR FR #i cried again #the sincerity the ability to explore his flaws and all and then still make it about his poetry #and the life of a poet #and create such a filmic translation of it all #and it has so much fun too !!!!!! #text #neruda 2016 #also just makes you treasure how beautiful spanish is and it should hit better if you understand it vs the english subs yknow? #hey rec living latin american poets i should check out bc i've ran out (of ones i could find copies of anyway) #but also i should reread Canto General

[your-subby-creature]

Gender studies is wild bc I truly have a manifesto due tomorrow

#Creature rambles #im doing an anti-eugenics manifesto #its going great but still #life is wild and i am so eepy #but i still have to go read abt latin american modernist poetry for my other class

[mearpsdyke]

i've been studying for 8 hours for a month-ish and i think i know why so many scholars are insane

#i'm at the point where i'm convinced i could win a full ride scholarship in any european college or ivy league #you have a singular text book for a subject? cool #i have 6 #+7 literature works per genre #(non applicable to poetry. i have tons of poems compiled in one text book) #i could be at the top of your class and steal your scholarships #with my dirty latin american hands. i just prefer my college #zyan ted talks

[ineffablelvrs]

latino and spanish people, could you guys comment or reblog with names of authors/poets that are most popular/significant in your countries (or like, ones that you studied abt in high school) ?? im doing a slideshow abt literature for spanish class and id really appreciate it if someone would help me out !!!!

#i mean i can google. and i will but also i want to know from people who studied it in high school or collage or whatever i guess #spanish #spain #latino #latin america #spanish literature #latin american literature #spanish poetry #classic literature #literature #poetry

[tirso-en-verso]

Where tf is Latin American Dark Academia. Like where is it. You want to study the stars? Mayans have the answers. Is Literature what you’re looking for? We have Sor Juana. And Nezahualcóyotl. And Pedro de Oña. And Ercilla. And Martí. You’re going to tell me nobody dreams about studying the civilizations of this earth and what they discovered and the secrets they held and the gods they believed in and all the stories they told of them? You’re going to tell me the Presagios and Codexes have no DA value… Like come on. Languages? Plenty to choose from, most nearing extinction. And Music?? Classical composers whose works are top tier gorgeous (I’M LOOKING AT YOU, ERNESTO NAZARETH) seriously???

You want representation? I want to see this!!

#dark academia aesthetic #dark academia #dark academia vibes #latin america #ernesto nazareth #representation #change #is this how you tag #latin american culture #latin american dark academia #astronomy #literature #history #poetry #latin america academia

[iishmael]

I’ve been slapped in the face by hubris. I’m gonna read Honduras in Spanish. And Nicaragua too

#Nicaragua is poetry so doable #Honduras is a novel AND I have an English option that I could go for but #since I pussied out of Costa Rica and am trying to order the German translation…. 😂 #I gotta make up for it #and Honduras seems readable for my Spanish level #which is a small miracle man the Latin American authors all speak in riddles! 😂 #shut up Sam

[toxic--minds]

I was filled with countless love letters that I wanted you to read from me, secrets that I never got to tell you, and myriads of nonsense that I wish to have whispered in your ears so that you could laugh.

I longed for a time when we basked under the sun's warmth and had summer picnics, and I called you darling. I longed to love you. Have a kitchen wrecked with love and a table overflowing with baked goodies.

They say grief is just love with no place to go.

And I'm just a hopeless romantic,

but I still cry over you even though I've already lost you.

—o.r

#myface #break up poem #breakupquotes #healing poetry #self love poetry #short poetry #love poetry #love poem #feel better #latin poetry #american literature #american poetry #grief poetry #grief poem

[the-fire-bubble]

What it means to be "Americano"

White privilege like I can trace my mother's grandfather's line down to Captain James Cook but don't speak a lick of Tagalog

White privilege like I speak English fluently, with minimal accent

White privilege that meant jack shit to my schoolyard bullies

Your eyes look Chinese! Whatever Julio Mongolio, you're just a know-it-all

Brown skin I hid from the sun because I was ashamed

Morena like I spoke spanish as an adult and un nina muy pequena pero no permiso hablar con nadie porque

"You're in America now, Speak English! None of that beaner talk!"

Morena like aprender una lengua primero but being buried alive under spelling bees and failed attempts at fitting in

Julie of the Wolves! Why do you blurt everything out? You're so annoying!

Cubana as in, I haven't held my Abuelita in my arms ever in my whole twenty-seven years

veinte-siete años y no veo mi familia en la isla porque no estas permisos

My father, tells me half truths as un abogado y mi mama, spills lies from her mouth like water from a fountain

Mestiza as in I don't speak Tagalog outside of Mahal kita Lolo

and it gets blended with mi español porque my mouth is this

plane hopping, floatation device riding, Ellis Island

full of trauma, words I never learned

supposedly to protect me from hate crimes,

and cultures I never got to claim

Oh but don't worry.

Being American comes with all this baggage and more.

Why did my ancestors leave the islands? I may never know,

but it hurts worse to know that if they all had a ghost party,

I could never speak to them in our collective mother tongues.

#poetic writings #poetry #poetic writing #writings #spilled thoughts #spilled ink #filipina #filipino #filipinx #latina #latino #latine #cuban #cubano #cubana #american #americano #estados unidos #español #íngles #en íngles

[dulcineadeltoboso]

New Podcast in Spanish with the best poems en Español!!!!

https://open.spotify.com/episode/57cFhWnJW5SFxpCPZjo8hp?si=V_Bvm3EwTGqhhBbzKj3s-Q

#podcasts #podcastenespañol #spanish #spanish literature #latin american art #Latin American poetry #Spotify