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Translated by Peter Bush
Mammal with Flea
I God, the mammal,
look agog at the universe and invisible things
and at the flea on the belly ...
Translated by Peter Bush
This time we’d agreed I would go and collect Borja at his place, naturally wearing my new suit, and from there we’d go to Mariona’s. The homage ...
To Drs Nolasc Acarin and August Andrés
Before the final night comes to a close for me,
I turn my back on the ominous day that is today;
so degraded
it ...
In 1958, a 17 year-old working-class lad from Xàtiva, an industrial town in the province of Alacant (Alicante), wrote an apparently conventional teenage song about riding pillion on a motor-bike. ...
The fact he had been born into an aristocratic family didn’t mean Robin Hood couldn’t hate social inequality. From childhood, he’d always felt indignant when he saw how the poor lived ...
Translated by Peter Bush
Castel de Olivo, 19 June
Iam in excellent health, but as full of grumbles as a sickly child.
I can’t tell you how much I have suffered serving in ...