Marcos Canteli

Marcos Canteli [Spain]

1974

Born in Bimenes, Austurias, Sapin in 1974, Marcos Canteli received his B.A. from the University of Oviedo, and his Ph.D. from Duke University in the USA. He currently works as the Resident Director for Duke University in Madrind.

     His four books of poetry include Reunión, enjambre, su sombrío, and catálogo de incesantes. Su sumbrío was awared the XXXI Ciudad de Burgos International Poetry Award.

     Canteli has also translated American poetry, including Robert Creeley’s Pieces and Jack Kerouac’s Book of Haikus. He is editor of the on-line revista de escritua & poéticas (http://www.7de7.net) and of a blogspot, http://dandolavoz.blogspot.com

 

BOOKS OF POETRY

 Reunión (Barcelona: Icaria, 1999); enjambre (Madrid: Bartleby, 2003); su sombrío (Barcelona: DVD, 2005); catálogo des incesantes (Madrid: Bartleby, 2008)

 

From Breathblade

what we don’t own

will last
 
the little bath on the grass the trough at its bottom
eye-mold a musical slump
that doesn’t exist
 
nor do your petals open but to another world

I write a lamina

over the dissolution
 
and upon returning to the house the house isn’t there

 

*

 

the house the house that most essentially we don’t own

the brightness of the eyes their own insulation suggests

the song dies the eye here starting tomorrow

 

that patch creaky wooden birds here

it wasn’t not is it a vestige since it derives

at long watery last from heatwritten trees

 

 

*

 

and this alloy of flux and shame

to the invisible translators from the closing

to the Virgin who licked her mother’s brain

 

in the haiku in the psychedelia of haiku my renewable

shivering in summer

 

nothing is imperious to anything

 

 *

 

Slow cherry / so silent / licking at the frost

 

brain blackened / my mother / stares at me

 

one of two branches of basil / sickens both / of my eyes

 

—Translated from the Spanish by Forrest Gander

 

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English language translations copyright ©2013 by Forrest Gander