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>> The next poem belongs
to a book called Glosas,

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which I'm not sure how to translate Glosas.

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>> Glosses.

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>> Glosses.

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And this book was.

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It's a very small chapbook.

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It was -- Very few copies
of the book really exist

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but they were only -- Only
a hundred were published.

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And each title is the verse, is the line of
some poet and the poem that I'm going to read,

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the title is Yo junté leña con los
otros, which belongs to Octavio Paz

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and to a very beautiful poem of his which is
called Pasado en claro, which is probably one

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of my favorite poems of Octavio Paz.

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It's a long poem about his family,
about his mother, about his father.

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It's very -- It's a very dramatic, very
sad, very personal poem and so this kind

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of like the gloss on that line
Yo junté leña con los otros.

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Yo junté leña con los otros.

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Yo cavé una zanja con los otros.

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Yo deshice el [inaudible] de la tumba
más negra del hueso con los otros.

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Yo postulé un reino tibio entre el demonio del
piso y la viga alta de un dios encaramado con

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los otros.

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Yo fundí los muros de la gruta y la
cera del astro partido con los otros.

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Yo arrastré el río por valles caducos y
zonas cerradas a la intemperie con los otros.

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Yo domé la tarde en los racimos de
rocas y el cuerpo blando de la sirena,

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envejecida por los oídos
pasajeros con los otros.

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Yo mitigué el silencio de las aves rapaces y
la furia de la corteza en la pira con los otros.

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Yo esquivé mi nombre con los otros.

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Grabé mi nombre en el conjuro con los otros.

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Tracé mi nombre en la frente delineada tras
el cabello y pospuse la noche en los ojos con

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los otros.

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Lo vi todo con los otros.

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Lo vi, lo dije.

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Esta cadencia con los otros, esta rotura de
aquí que se abre en la voz porque fue cierto el

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veredicto con los otros.

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Perdieron una mitad del sueño y
ganaron un gajo de historia a los otros.

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No pude extinguir la claridad.

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Una progenie proclamaba el triunfo,
pero si hubiera habido menos luz,

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menos tumulto de espíritus, habría visto a
los otros conmigo de nuevo por la gracia de una

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conjetura, adivinando esto
será así, será así.

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>> In English, the title of this poem is I
gathered wood with the others and in the notes

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to Pasado en claro, Octavio Paz explains
that this line of his is a reference

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to Hector's funeral in the Iliad.

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In Glosses, I gathered wood with the others
and wept with the smoke of [? the horse-tamer's ?] pyre.

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I gathered wood with the others.

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I dug a ditch with the others.

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I dissolved a century made by bones
black as tomb with the others.

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I postulated a warm kingdom,
somewhere between the demon floor

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and ascending God's tall rafter with the others.

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I melted down the grotto walls in
the cleft stars wax with the others.

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I dragged the river, through battered valleys
and zones closed to open air with the others.

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I tamed the afternoon on clustered
rocks and the sirens' soft body,

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aged by fleeting ears with the others.

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I mitigated the raptor's silence and
[inaudible] fury on the pyre with the others.

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I shunned my name with the others.

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I carved my name on a magic
spell with the others.

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I sketched my name on the
forehead outlined by my hair

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and postponed night in my eyes with the others.

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I saw it all with the others.

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I saw it. I said it.

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This cadence with the others, this
ruptured space that opens up in my voice

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because [inaudible] truthful with the others.

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Those who lost half their sleep and gained
a wedge of history with the others.

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I could not quench clarity,
progenies proclaimed their triumph.

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But if there had been less light, less tumult
among the spirits, I would have seen the others

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with me once again by the grace of
conjecture, foretelling and so it shall.

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It shall be.