José Manuel Arango
José Manuel Arango Poems
as if crossing a river
I undress beside her body
risky
like a river at night
...
(after Anacreon)
The girl, with the hair almost blue
and large, sparkling eyes
waves, excited by the music.
...
perhaps madness
is the punishment
for he who violates a secret precinct
and looks in the eyes of a terrible
animal
...
I
men rush out on the streets
to celebrate the coming of night
...
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With a glass in my hand, looking at the mountains,
I caress the back of my dog.
...
Those whose job it is to wash the streets
(they get up early, so God helps them)
find on the stones, every other day, puddles of blood
...
night, like an animal
left its breath on my window
between the needles of the cold
...
José Manuel Arango Biography
José Manuel Arango studied philosophy and education, and became master in philosophy and literature in the University of West Virginia, U.S.A. He was a professor of symbolic logic in the Universidad de Antioquia and founder, with other poets, of two literary reviews. Let the voice of the poet tells us about his experience with words: “Maybe the poem is born of the exploration of a shared circumstance, or as an answer to a personal, painful or happy, experience. A few words that will be a reflection, not only of the intellect, but of the human being all flesh and blood. Behind them there will be, of course, all that is called a vision of the world: political and religious convictions, things learned or lessons learned from experience. From there one talks and one values, perhaps doubting, perhaps blundering. From there one tries to distinguish true from false in emotions and in words, to see the difference between that which is honest and that which is fictitious, rhetorical or sentimental.)
The Best Poem Of José Manuel Arango
as if crossing a river
as if crossing a river
I undress beside her body
risky
like a river at night
Translation: 2005, Nicolás Suescún
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