Argentina 1983

Feierstein 47 Ricardo Feierstein Argentina 1983 Hope is a promenade harsh and uncertain as the flicker of fire over mosaic and in the end unable to decide whether to turn into tongues of smoke paintbrushes shading reality a play of sheathed sparks from bitterness to guesswork lukewarm oracles of the ordinary or, quickening, now tracks across the cold floor with its needle bisecting the cracks to shatter thick slabs of concrete until it jabs the earth into a hot, arborescent whirl and those small flames breed subterranean fires burst of lads and lapidary shards tumbling through the air to grip hands that are unity, warmth, flight of shadows are a swath carved by the enamored sun are soft rockface of the morning. translated by J. Kates and Stephen A. Sadow ...