- Tenderly
Tenderly I lick your wounds—unseen wounds the ones that don't bleed—I take your hand and guide you so very slowly toward the shore and doubling back the same way we came looking intoeach other's eyes aloving breeze works through the fog working harduntil it has given back the night's stars one by one. [End Page 54]
Juan Antillón's groundbreaking book, Island, won the Latin American Premio de Poesía Valle-Inclán in 1987. The following year it was awarded Costa Rica's national poetry prize (Aquileo Echeverría). Isla was published by the Editorial Universitaría Centroamericana and appeared as an art book in collaboration with the artist, Ricardo Ulloa, whose drawings appear every other page. Antillón lives in San José, Costa Rica.
Julia Guez's essays, interviews, reviews, and translations have appeared in POETRY, Guardian, Boston Review, Hyperallergic, and PEN Poetry Series. She has received the "Discovery"/Boston Review Poetry Prize and the John Frederick Nims Memorial Prize in Translation. Guez works at Teach For America–New York and lives online @G_U_E_Z. She teaches creative writing at Rutgers and is a poetry reviewer for Publishers Weekly.