Potential Titles: Jaime Manrique

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Starry with delirious heartsease - Jaime Manrique "Mambo" transl. by Edith Grossman

A topaz sky and huge windows - Jaime Manrique "Mambo" transl. by Edith Grossman

My aunts danced the mambo - Jaime Manrique "Mambo" transl. by Edith Grossman

A July night scented with gardenia - Jaime Manrique "The Sky Over My Mother's House" transl. by Edith Grossman

Hiding the essence of the night - Jaime Manrique "The Sky Over My Mother's House" transl. by Edith Grossman

With its deepening onyx shadows - Jaime Manrique "The Sky Over My Mother's House" transl. by Edith Grossman

The golden brilliance of the stars - Jaime Manrique "The Sky Over My Mother's House" transl. by Edith Grossman

Immersed in the solitude or the moment - Jaime Manrique "The Sky Over My Mother's House" transl. by Edith Grossman

The twinkling stars pierce me with nostalgia - Jaime Manrique "The Sky Over My Mother's House" transl. by Edith Grossman

To unfold in frothing ringlets - Jaime Manrique "Swan's Elegy" transl. by Eugene Richie

Rippling iridescent serpents form - Jaime Manrique "Swan's Elegy" transl. by Eugene Richie

The sky is a luminous scarlet arch - Jaime Manrique "Swan's Elegy" transl. by Eugene Richie

The hush of this supple silence - Jaime Manrique "Swan's Elegy" transl. by Eugene Richie

To puncture my heart with its desolate song - Jaime Manrique "Swan's Elegy" transl. by Eugene Richie

Toward the magenta shroud of its fate - Jaime Manrique "Swan's Elegy" transl. by Eugene Richie


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