Las lágrimas de Ahab
José María Álvarez
Colección Visor de Poesía.
The one song
Mark Strand
poems selection b
Eduardo Chirinos
Pre-Textos, 2004.
Si yo amaneciera otra vez
William Faulkner
Alfaguara, 1997.
Sonetos
William Shakespeare
Colección Visor de Poesía,
6ª Ed 1999.
Epodos y Odas de Horacio
Enrique Badosa,
La Veleta99, Comares, 1998.
Poesía Completa
Francisco Brines
Tusquets,
Nuevos Textos Sagrados
2ª Ed 1999.
Odas y Sonetos
John Keats
Poesía Hiperión, 1997.
I praise the clouds that are like lungs of Light
I praise the mouse’s fury, the wolf’s consideration
I praise the depth of closets
I praise the gardeners, the Worms and the small plants that praise
__ each other
I praise all manner of shade, that which I see and that which I do not
I praise those who have made of their bodies final embassies of flesh
I praise the failure of those with ambition, the authors of leaflets and
__ notebooks of nothing
I praise the moon for suffering men
I praise the pain of revival and the bliss of decline
I praise all for nothing because there is no price
I praise the morning whose sun is upon me
I praise the evening whose son I am
Excerpts from the Mark Strand’s poem "from a litany",
in his book "The one song", published by Pre-Textos,
and translated to Spanish by Eduardo Chirinos.