Anthony Seidman

Here’s a first draft of Rivas’ supreme poem, Canto fúnebre a la muerte de Joaquín Pasos–an ars poetica, a funeral song–rendered into English.  It’s a version, a translation, yet in a Robert Lowell type of way.
Joaquín Pasos is one of the great poets from Nicaragua, a land of poets, along with Darío, Cuadra, Leonel Rugama, [...]