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“It is difficult to know quite where to begin this story, but I have fixed my choice on a certain Wednesday at luncheon at the Vicarage”

Agatha Christie, "The Murder at the Vicarage"

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5 diciembre 2015 American Canyon, CA

Tu sonrisa es los ‘holas’ del sol por la mañana Con dientes de lucero y labios de pura caña; Desde el primer '¡Halo!’ que vio el mundo crecer Hasta el último '¡oh!’ que no hemos de ver.

Besos, esos rayos tibios Esos besos, tan solo mios Besos, esos cantos hondos Esos besos, tan sin fondo

Y todo resplandece, mundos se juntan y desvanecen Todos los segundos de sienten, únicos, solitarios y callados. Súbitamente, retornamos las caras y la pausa se suspende, Palma con palma, peregrinos y mesteres tiran dados.

-@poetaenlosolmos

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Nicolás Guillén

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Miguel de Cervantes

September 29, 1547 - April 22, 1616

Writer of, arguably, the first novel in modern literary history. Creator of dreams and inquisitor of reality. Join me in saying: ¡Don Quijote es eterno!

Post your favorite Quijote quote #donquijotevive

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Take a private Periscope tour of Jackson Pollock: A Collection Survey, 1934–1954 with curators Starr Figura and Hillary Reder on the occasion of #MuseumWeek. The broadcast expires Wednesday am, so catch it while you can! 

[Installation view of Jackson Pollock: A Collection Survey, 1934–1954 at The Museum of Modern Art, New York (November 22, 2015–March 13, 2016). Photo by Thomas Griesel. © 2015 The Museum of Modern Art, New York]

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El retrato de Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde

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No niego que la interpretación biográfica sea un camino para llegar a la obra. Sólo que es un camino que se detiene a sus puertas: para comprenderla realmente, debemos trasponerlas y penetrar en su interior. En ese momento la obra se desprende de su autor y se transforma en una realidad autónoma. Inmersos en la lectura, cesar de interesarnos los motivos inconscientes que hayan podido mover a Cervantes a escribir el 'Quijote'. Tampoco nos interesan sus razones; esas razones son una interpretación y nosotros, tácitamente, por el solo hecho de leer su libro, superponemos a las interpretaciones del autor las nuestras. La obra se cierra al autor y se abre al lector.

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz o las Trampas de la Fe (1982), Octavio Paz

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La vida no explica enteramente la obra y la obra tampoco explica a la vida. Entre una y otra hay una zona vacía, una hendedura. Hay algo que está en la obra y que no está en la vida del autor; ese algo es lo que se llama creación o invención artística y literaria. El poeta, el escrito es el olmo que sí da peras

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz o las Trampas de la Fe (1982), Octavio Paz

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“¿Batallas? ¡No! Pasiones. Y pasiones precedidas de dolores con rejas de esperanzas, de dolores de pueblos con esperanzas de hombres, ¡muerte y pasión de paz, las populares! “

- Cesar Vallejo.

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30 Day Poetry Challenge

30 Day Poetry Challenge Day 1- Write a poem where each line starts with a letter from your first name (an acrostic). It can be about anything, but it should not be about you or your name. Day 2- Who was the last person you texted? Write a five line poem to that person. Day 3- Find the nearest book (of any kind). Turn to page 8. Use the first ten full words on the page in a poem. You may use them in any order, anywhere in the poem. Day 4- Write a haiku. They’re often about nature, but yours can be about anything. Day 5- Write a three line poem about lemons without using the following words: lemon, yellow, round, fruit, citrus, tart, juicy, peel, and sour. Day 6- Write a poem of any length incorporating every word from your latest Facebook status. Day 7- Take a walk until you find a tree you identify with, then write a poem using the tree as a metaphor for yourself or your life. Day 8- Write a cinquain on a topic of your choice. Day 9- Quickly jot down four verbs, four adjectives, and four nouns. Write a poem using all 12 words. Day 10- Pick a one line song lyric to serve as an epigraph to your poem. Then, write the poem to accompany it. Day 11- Write a list poem. Day 12- Tell your life story in 6 words. Day 13- Write a short poem that a child would like. Day 14- Write a bad poem, make it as lousy as you can, do everything wrong, let yourself be awful. Day 15- Post a poem (written by someone else) that you love (for any reason). Day 16- Respond to the poem you posted yesterday with a poem of your own. Day 17- Write a poem that employs a rhyme scheme. Day 18- Write a poem without any end rhyme, only internal rhyme. Day 19- Imagine yourself doing any household task/chore, then write a poem using what you’ve imagined as an extended metaphor for writing. Day 20- Write a narrative poem detailing a specific childhood memory. Day 21- Choose one of the poems you’ve already written and posted as part of this challenge and re-order it in some way. You could rearrange the lines or stanzas or even words in a line. Think of it as a puzzle! Day 22- What is the first car you bought/drove/remember? Write a poem about it. Day 23- Write a seven line poem that begins with “it’s true that fresh air is good for the body” (from Frank O’Hara’s poem “Ave Maria”) and ends with “this is our body” (from Gary Snyder’s “The Bath”). Day 24- Write a poem that’s different in some way from anything you’ve ever written. Take a chance! Be wild! Day 25- Write a poem that includes all of the following words: pistachio, ink, pebble, weather, varnish. Day 26- Gather some magazines/catalogs you don’t mind cutting up and spend ten minutes flipping through them looking for words/sentences that spark your interest. Cut out the words as you go, and (at the end of the ten minutes) arrange the words to form a cut-out poem. Day 27- Begin with the title “The Poem I’d Never Write.” Then, write that poem. Day 28- Visit a virtual art gallery and look around until you find a piece that intrigues you. Write a poem inspired by the artwork. Day 29- Briefly research a poetic form of your choice and write a poem according to the rules of that particular form. Day 30- Write a poem employing extended metaphor to illustrate the experience of the last thirty days.

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“It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.” The great Gabriel García Márquez was born today in 1927!

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This is what Native American fashion looks like without the cultural appropriation

Follow @this-is-life-actually

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“Todavia era demasiado joven para saber que la memoria del corazón elimina los malos recuerdos y magnifica los buenos, y que gracias a ese artificio logramos sobrellevar el pasado.”

Gabriel García Márquez.

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Happy World Book Day!!! Current read pile

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Gretas. 🏠 (arquivo pessoal)