Cable Street

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I have a translation in the premier issue of Light Study journal—“The Breath” by Alaíde Foppa (1914-1980). Foppa is a Guatemalan/Mexican poet of great elegance, who among other works wrote a great series of poems, Elogio de mi cuerpo, from which the translated poem is taken.

Alaíde Foppa

Translated by Dana Delibovi The Breath I don’t know wherethe wind that carries mearises. Or thethe sigh that consoles me,or the airthat steadily lifts my breastand holds aloftmy invisible flight.I …

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