Tag: Jorge Luis Borges

• * stepping into the river with mark strand

  When I read poetry, I want to feel myself suddenly larger … in touch with—or at least close to—what I deem magical, astonishing. I want to experience a kind of wonderment. And when you report back to your own daily world after experiencing the strangeness of a world sort of recombined and reordered in the…

  José Angel Araguz

  December 5, 2014

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• * clepsydrally musing & borges

  Found myself recently turning back to a sonnet by Jorge Luis Borges for an epigraph for a new poem. Below is the original poem in Spanish, followed by my own modest translation. Two things stood out to me in translating. First, the word clepsydra which, after much maneuvering and reading through information, turns out to…

  José Angel Araguz

  November 14, 2014

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• borges: a lyrical alignment

  This past week, I found myself reading the essay “Verbiage for Poems” by Jorge Luis Borges (found in On Writing, Penguin Classics), and coming across a marvelous paragraph – emphasis on the ‘marvel,’ something of strange weather patterns moving across the sky in the middle of an ordinary afternoon about this paragraph. In my enthusiasm, I found…

  José Angel Araguz

  May 2, 2014

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• * learning to Howl with Allen Ginsberg

  Had to read and discuss Allen Ginsberg’s Howl this week in one of my classes.  Kinda went like this: I have gone back and forth on the poem Howl since I first read it at eighteen.  I shared with my classmates how I went to San Diego on spring break once and spent five days…

  José Angel Araguz

  September 6, 2013

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• * some words from W. H. Auden & the friday influence

  “I will love you forever” swears the poet. I find this easy to swear to. “I will love you at 4:15 pm next Tuesday” – Is that still as easy? (Auden) This week on the Influence: W. H. Auden. Auden’s one of those guys I come back to in my thoughts, and whose words I…

  José Angel Araguz

  March 1, 2013

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• * the Borges/Araguz haiku challenge & the friday influence

  3 Haiku – Jorge Luis Borges * They have said something to me, the afternoon and the mountain. Already, it is lost. ** The antique sword dreams of its battles. Another is my dream. ** Is it an empire that light dying down or a firefly? ** This week on the Influence – Jorge Luis…

  José Angel Araguz

  September 14, 2012

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