1150: Fuji, Ararat by Legna Rodriguez Iglesias, translated by Eduardo Aparicio
Today\u2019s poem is Fuji, Ararat by Legna Rodri\u0301guez Iglesias, translated by Eduardo Aparicio.
The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, guest host Leslie Sainz writes\u2026 \u201cToday\u2019s exquisite poem infuses the Petrarchan sonnet with playful existentialism and self-soothing. It\u2019s Nietzsche meets Anti-Eat, Pray, Love\u2014and as a work of translation, it defies impossibility.\u201d
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