Tag: language

• * “the pure / holy of instinct”: elizabeth acevedo

  I agree with those who hold that one of poetry’s major ambitions should be to refresh the language. Through engagement and interrogation of words shared in common, poems can bring us closer to meaning what we mean. An example of the kind of interrogation I mean is evident in this week’s poem from fellow CantoMundo poet […]

  José Angel Araguz

  September 23, 2016

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  arts, astrology, CantoMundo, chapbook, Cincinnati Ohio, Corpus Christi Texas, creative writing, Elizabeth Acevedo, Eugene Oregon, Jose Angel Araguz, language, literature, lyric poems, poetry, publication, short lyric poems, the friday influence, Virgo, writing, Xavier University, YesYes Books

• * translation 3/3 on the friday influence

  (from Proverbios y Cantares – Antonio Machado) * XXXII. Oh faith of meditation! Oh faith after deep thought! When a heart returns to earth, the human cup overflows, and the sea swells. *** This week, The Friday Influence presents the work of the great Spanish poet Antonio Machado. I first ran across the above poem […]

  José Angel Araguz

  July 6, 2012

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  Antonio Machado, creative writing, Eugene Oregon, God, Goethe, John Keats, Jose Angel Araguz, language, literature, Phil Levine, Poesias Completas, poetry, Portland, Powells, Spain, the sea, translation, writing