Tag: questions

• * questions with Pablo Neruda & Mary Oliver

  XXXIII. And why is the sun such a bad friend to someone walking in the desert? And why is the sun so friendly in the hospital garden? Are these birds or fish here in nets of moonlight? Was it where they lost me that I was able to find myself? Pablo Neruda, from the Book […]

  José Angel Araguz

  August 16, 2013

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• * some origins, manu chao & the friday influence

  In regards to the question “When did you start writing?” I give several answers depending on context. If it’s a professional context, I say seventeen, that being the year that I first typed up, printed, and sent off poems to a real lit mag.  I call it the year I began to take my writing […]

  José Angel Araguz

  January 25, 2013

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• * translation 1/3 on the friday influence

  (from The Book of Questions – Pablo Neruda) *   IV. How many churches in Heaven?   Why does the shark not attack the indifferent sirens?   Does smoke chat with the clouds?   Is it true that all hopes should be watered with dew?   XXIV.   Is 4 the same 4 for all? […]

  José Angel Araguz

  June 22, 2012

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