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William Osuna (Venezuela, 1948)
When Gardel Came to Caracas
When Gardel came to Caracas, and I
was only an acrobatic invention
jumping in other bodies
he came because I called him
Nobody knows this,
nor is it in tango’s anthologies.
Everybody knows the little window
appearing on his head.
Well I drew it while
he was asleep at the Majestic
I remember stealing his guitar
and going serenading
with the horses
somewhere in La Pastora.
Then I got lost in the night
and I was found dead-tired
twenty years in
the south km
licking feeding bottles with disinfected milk.
Tranlated by Jaime Tello
William Osuna was born in Valparaíso, Chile in November 30, 1947. Poet, narrator, essayist, playwright, translator, journalist, anthropologist and university professor. During his stay abroad, for political reasons -20 years - he was part of the Stockholm Workshop Group. Cultural journalist in Radio Sweden International and in the program Panorama of Sveriges Radio, during 13 years. Guest to the World Congress of Poets in Madrid, Poetry International of Rotterdam, The First Encounter of Writers of Spanish Language in the Canaries Islands, The World Encounter of Poets from Oslo and to Poesidagarna, in Malmo, Sweden where more than 40 poets gathered. In 1989 he organized, in collaboration with Sun Axelsson, The First Great Encounter of Latin American Poetry in Stockholm, Sweden, with the assistance of more than 40 poets, currently living in Europe. With La Mirada Temerosa Del Bastardo, he obtained the Poetry Prize: Ciudad de Valparaíso. He has been translated into Swedish, English and French. Other of his poetry books: La Morada del Signo, 1982; Cantonírico, 1983; Reverberaciones de Piedras Acuáticas, 1985; Terrenales, 1989; Saga Nórdica, 1996. |
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