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Today I missed my spinning class and I found a type of class called "master class" and that is only done once a month. Instead of having a coach on your bike, there are 3 coaches and class lasts 15 minutes longer than a normal.

In this class, more trainers and participants, is to go further. It seems, in practice, achieved. Coaches scream "war cries are true to some participants also join them, and people follow the rhythm, and the fact is that when you're too tired, and you hear the screams, come back to draw strength from nothing.

If I had a stationary bike at home, I never would use it would not be beaten. I go to this kind of spinning just to meet a coach and other people, who are in conditions similar to mine, and leave as new after the great effort. This is a cluster of sensations and the participants efforts, coaches leading the way, people sweat, the accompanying music, all this combination creates a highly motivating environment.

seems clear that our efforts together are very powerful and alone in our room all we find it hard.

Now, think a moment about the language skills of Indian this guy.

I think it is hunger that has led him to speak in different languages \u200b\u200bin order to sell. This observation made me wonder what is the source of motivation and, if somehow we can enhance the absence of a stimulus as strong as hunger, money or a job in sight can we use other Resources for Automotive?

I think so.

I

some Examples:

• Study Group

BJ Fogg a teacher and psychologist at Stanford University specializing in "persuasion" he said in an interview that if a teen does not want study, the best is not to punish him, but put with other people who are studying to influence him. The group, or people around us, is therefore very important in getting results. I have said on several occasions why I created a page on Facebook

• sought an "enemy" (albeit fictional) to compete against him

This trick I love it because it is very effective. For example, "the Chinese" are of little stimulus because workers are struggling more than us.

few days ago I read an article in "The Economist" about a Chinese American who has written a book saying that Western mothers are very soft and, therefore, their children obtenienen poor results. Chinese mothers in Instead, they are superior because they are more strict and they forbid their children almost every form of entertainment.

Although these claims are exaggerated, the fact is that according to the above article, the test results published by the OECD in December 2010 that evaluated adolescents in reading, science and mathematics they indicate that students from Shanghai to comfortably beat South Korea, Singapore and Hong Kong. Among Western countries maintained only Finnish type.

But

Noses where are we? Sleeping?

If the Chinese can, why can not we? Come, get out of bed!

• Tomorrow everything can change (`a worse!)

I practically born with this stimulus. Do not really know very well why. Never believe that the road is made or that you can relax, I always think that maybe tomorrow I do not have anything of what I achieved today. While this thinking may be too exaggerated, look what I used!

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man, David Ogilvy created a rule using this type of thinking. And you? What do you do you are not creating your own? Note: Not just the material, also can be "an empire of knowledge."

• Celebrate small wins to get a big win

you diet and lose a kilo. Already a kilo! What a triumph!

3 verbs you learn English from top to bottom and bottom is a triumph! To celebrate! "Guessed it in a translation of my games on Facebook? What a triumph! Come on, keep trying! And with a win and one tiny little victory, and another, in the end, have a great success!

• Automate your behavior to learn English using Pavlovian conditioning.

then I explain with an example.

I once read that a builder had managed to have a body ten because every time he will come closer to the fridge to nibble rather than eat, made-ups. So, from now, looking for something (eg this blog) or someone that relations with the English and put it close to you to remind you to study English at least an hour each day.

• Get used to that failure is part of your life

In our culture failure is a "brown beast." No But the truth is that we fail because we are trying to do something and the worst failure is indeed "doing nothing ." So do me the favor of opening a folder of failures, "not passed the First Certificate", "no more than a job interview not knowing English" and another folder with the new plans to overcome the particular failure.

These failures are a sign that you're alive, you're trying and you will get it someday. I have a folder failures also and always try to be fattened up a little because it would be worrying. For example, I'm trying to get a newspaper to publish something about the free course in English we update the blog every week and nobody listens to me. Interestingly, all the times we have gone in the press and television has been by accident! We just found through Google. Now I would like to give publicity to the course no nothing! So for the moment I have failed, but I will seize the opportunity pokes his neck.

Remember The difference between the winner and the loser is the winner to be more clever; the difference is that the winner never, never give up. When I say it is "impossible", he says he "might" and when I say "no" he says "yes!"

You? What do you do to motivate you to study English?

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1Q84 : the latest novel by Haruki Murakami

supplement The Culture of English newspaper El Mundo published, plus an interview with Haruki Murakami (Kyoto, 1949), Japanese novelist Today's most successful and mentioned as a future Nobel Prize, an excerpt of his latest book 1Q84 (edited by Tusquets), as we enjoy reading below

Aomame Do not be fooled by appearances taxi radio was broadcasting a program of classical music on FM. Janácek Sinfonietta sounded. In the midst of a jam, I could not say it was more appropriate to listen. The driver did not seem to pay much attention to music. Middle-aged man just watched with the mouth closed the endless line of cars that stretched before him like a veteran fisherman, standing in the bow, read the ominous line of convergence of ocean currents. Aomame either lying in the back seat, listening to music with closed eyes. [...]

Aomame had taken the taxi near Kinuta and in Yoga, had gone on Route 3 in the Metropolitan Expressway. At first, the vehicle is moving with ease, but, before reaching Sangenjaya suddenly formed a jam, and soon they could hardly even move. In the opposite lane, traffic flowed normally. Your lane was the only one who suffered a disastrous jam. Typically, three p.m. past was not usually the time slot in which one lane of Route 3 is stuck. So the driver had told him to take the subway.

"The price will not increase because we're on the subway," said the driver, looking in the mirror. So you need not worry about money. However, Miss, I suppose you could be a problem late for an appointment, right?

"Sure, but before he told me he could not do anything, right?

The driver glanced Aomame face in the rearview mirror. He wore sunglasses tone clear. Due to light, could not glimpsed his face.

"Hey, is that there is absolutely no way. There is an emergency measure a stretch, but could go to Shinjuku by train.

- A resource of emergency?

-not just in view of the world.

Aomame, without a word and with narrowed eyes, waited for the Lord to speak.

"Look, there's a space that would lend a car the driver said, pointing forward. Where is the large panel of Esso.

Aomame set and saw a parking space in case of accident to the left of the second lane. As the metropolitan no shoulders in some places had enabled emergency evacuation sites. They had a yellow cab with a mobile phone emergency from which they could contact the administration of highways. At that time there was not any car stopped. On the roof of the building separating the oncoming traffic lane that had a huge billboard of the oil company Esso. It consisted of a smiling tiger that was holding the hose of a fuel pump.

"The point is that there are some steps leading down to ground level. In case of fire or a major earthquake, the driver can leave the car and go down there. Normally, is used by road maintenance workers. After going down those stairs, there is a network station by Tokyu. If you take a train, come then to Shinjuku.

I did not know they had fire escapes in the metropolitan area.

"Usually, nobody knows. HAVE


A somewhat different idea
The first memory I have was when I was a year and a half. His mother had removed her blouse, the tie was undone and white combination nursed a man who was not her father.

A baby lying in a crib, probably out I have. He saw himself in the third person. Although it might be his twin brother ... No, it was not. He must be your own I have, with one and a half years. I knew by intuition. The baby was asleep, eyes closed, and how breathing could be heard faintly. For I have, this was the first memory of his life. That scene just ten seconds had been recorded clearly in the walls of his mind. There was no before or after. The memory was all alone, isolated, as a pinnacle in a city flooded by a great flood, whose head looms above the muddy surface water. Whenever the opportunity presented itself, I have asked people around him what old were in the first memory of their lives. Most, four or five years. At the earliest, three years. Nobody used to remember things from a younger age. It was as if a child should have at least three years to witness and understand, with some logic, situations occurring around you.

In previous phases, all reflected as an incomprehensible chaos. The world was muddy as a diluted slurry, had no frame and was elusive. Escaped through the window without becoming a memory in the brain.

Of course, an infant and a half year old can not judge which means that a man who is not your father suck his mother's nipples. That is obvious. Therefore, if I have that memory of being true, the scene would have been recorded in the retina as we saw, without being prosecuted. Like a camera that records mechanically bodies celluloid tape, amalgamating light and shadow. And as the mind develops gradually the images are analyzed and set aside and given meaning. But what could have happened in reality? Is it possible that such an image is stored in the brain of an infant? [...]

Literature. Haruki Murakami. 1Q84.

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"Edge" by Luis Hernandez is serving 50 years

Today in Literature House celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of the

release of "Edge", the first book of our great poet

Luis Hernández Camarero . Next Article reproduce

published in the Web MMP :

, "At twenty, Luis Hernandez, who did not double that age, published

his first book. It was a short collection of short poems which he entitled the Shore (1961) and whose original text prefix of this pathetic François Mauriac question: Who am I, be formless ocean hero? Now, six years after his death, the singing and the light of his work, we feel the full weight of that anguished existential inquiry, at the time we reached the joyous certainty of achieving its own identity in the space created , for his poetic word "and Javier Sologuren writes in the preface to his complete poetic work (1983).

On Tuesday, January 25 marks fifty years since the appearance of Shore, a book that Released 1961 Luis Hernandez, cult writer of the letters in Peru. This book of poems was the first publication of the author and appeared under the imprint flagship "branch florida", directed by poet Javier Sologuren.

Luis Hernandez (1941 - 1977) studied at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru, and then at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos. Along with his medical profession, Hernandez began to write poetry and was one of the most prominent representatives of the so-called Generation 60. He was among the first to incorporate humor and quotations metatextual in Peruvian poetry. Owner of a singular work, Hernandez is also one of those responsible for the incorporation of Peruvian poetry of astronomy and science in general.

To commemorate the half century of the publication of Edge, the Peruvian Literature House has prepared a tribute where outstanding representatives of the music and lyrics accompany us read the texts that make up this book and telling us how poetry Luis Hernandez has influenced his art. Musicians Rafo

Ráez and Piero Montaldo, and writers: Milagros Martinez

Gabriel Jiménez Josefina Rimachi and join us in this tribute.

The meeting is Tuesday January 25 in the auditorium of the Caslit (Jr. Ancash 207,

Historic Centre of Lima), at 6:30 pm Admission is free.

POEMS OF SHORE

Weed planter


Who am I, being no way that the ocean gnaws
? Francois Mauriac



- Above

where they can never see it,
your signal,

gardener weeds - and come after you.
Soon
above your signal.

1

new
Heaven for a moment the heart of the soul

believed us. Faded
already
sad is your flight,
attempt, effort
loved flourished ...
Where you once wanted to call

face, heart, light and silence,
yours will be, will not be ours, and

lost your life.


2


We relived the same
of
yesterday and tomorrow. The water rises
already covering


day and hours;

me and only the sea is clear and
nascent
me and just left

sea, sad, dull.


3
west sun,
lost your beauty,
hidden and not
found your destination. Only
will be, forever infinite
in decline, huge
your silence.
you will be in
only dead roses, songs
submerged in the sea red
,
still in your life, your sky
ignored.

4

Although nothing had been to sea with my joy,
not
never felt the sound of the waves,
foam on the shore. Now

love beaches

is too far away.
Without
fleeting breath of sand, sea

flows from the bottom without finding
. Closed


5, numb
channel all that and still wanted
undone, undone closed
life smile
westward west sun, which does not return

light cover off it and not experienced, so clean
memories. Legions of unstable paths

the sea and close together
ignored.
We already know the end,
is still immense failure,
dead already closed smile.


and 6


Water cut the bottom line
algae.
at sea I thought when I read

like and sounded like the sea:
can not sit,
banks are wet, wet
banks,
and rotten wood.

For now they have reached the sea and the bow
trails at night

on blue waves and I can not take them.
can not sit.

live arena even as the street lights.


Mar

Among the shade I

Juan Ramón Jiménez

1

REFLECTIONS ON WATER

Slots
soft water are lost in the bank.
- You may live;

wet air and dry the sand ....
- The wind brings
fleeting and saline drops.

came the sea before,
serene without being seen,
my love for him now
forget to heaven.

sang before
Water infiltrated in the sand;
today, looking up to her by the sea
not satisfied.


Yesterday we saw the waves coming up perfect

our feet today disrupts
our bodies the break,

sea is very bitter,

have drunk the water in one day,
walked its banks.



2

The last wave
clean and blue

has gone so near me I can feel

thought.



3

I turn my face up ...


down at the bottom of the pit stone and salt, Orionids

stars sink into night.



and 4

I covered in more
the void between stars and star

believing mine;
more night and I'm dying

just as before.
RAIN


Come outside, rain, wet

face, the suit. We
out

jump puddles,
and watch the sky fill us

eyes water and contentment.

Literature. Poetry. Luis Hernandez Shore.

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Gösta Agren

l E Black Sun blog headed by our friend the poet Paul Guillén published texts of Finnish poet Gosta Agren (Nykarleby 1936), seamlessly translated by the Peruvian writer Renato Sandoval Bacigalupo (1957). Through these poems appear to us two figures essential twentieth-century thought: Ludwig Wittgenstein and Martin Heidegger in an intense series of ideas and images that only poetry can reveal. ;

Martin Heidegger

Solo, as a pagan chief
and officiating
examining each word as discussed
a detail in the shadows under
all, but the words were
being words. Neither in the speeches
the dictator heard the howl of a jackal.
The race was a biological message of something unknown
everyday
had not profaned
violence history
high mission, a clumsy people Dance under the lonely

masters of words. No doubt
and therefore did
deep as a child.
Everything was huge like a saga
way to the conference, which was the only
be

a heart without limits or face.




Ludwig Wittgenstein



thinking
always turns inward and destroys.
He knew it, but his desperation

used as a method. The chaos must be sorted, even

at the cost of failure. Everything, even a failure
,

may be something else! Philosopher

paid the same price as Rimbaud,
he wrote his last poem
first, then the other,
line after line.

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Literature. Poetry. Gösta Agren. Renato Sandoval.

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reading to accelerate your learning of English in news






few days ago one of my students via Skype complained how slow was his progress in learning English. Among other things, he recommended the "active reading."

I have discussed this issue at another time , but today we will give a more practical approach.

then explain what the "active reading."

Most of us when we read, we read of a passive (passive reading), ie we care to understand what you are saying the author of the text, in general, without attention to detail.

Something similar happens when a person who knows nothing of photography see a picture. Instinctively decide if you like it or not, but it goes further because the rest of the information about the photo has little relevance to their purposes. If the person is, however, a professional photographer (or aspiring to be), the focus changes. The professional, if he tries, will be set in every detail and make a much more detailed reading of what you see: light, contrast, sharpness.

Although passive way of reading is the most practical because it helps us to process information quickly, does not help us advance our learning English. To make real progress needs to be done exactly the opposite: to learn every single detail of written and spoken language.

As a student of English, that's exactly what I want to do when you read in English: you to notice the details.

With an example we will see more clearly.

We will take a web page text "BBC learning Inglés" -a page that I highly recommend to my students at "intermediate" and "upper intermediate" - and dissected just one paragraph to learn to read actively .

First, you hear the text for to ear. As I always say: not read without hearing.

What is the "active reading"

The "active reading" is not only to learn new vocabulary, but to look at those words and expressions that are particularly difficult for you. Usually it will be all the words and expressions that are very different from English.

you never forget those words. Here you have the document in pdf.

1) American scientists say that they’ve discovered why some men go bald . 2) They blame faulty cells which seem to produce hair that is so thin that it is invisible to the naked eye . 3) They expect to find a cure for baldness.

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1) American scientists say that they’ve discovered why Some men go bald.

Contraction of "They've" -> They have "

Translation: American scientists say they have discovered why some men are bald.

How far the English structure of the English?

In principle, it is not so different. Especially striking is the expression "go bald "


• Scientists: noun. Very difficult to pronounce word. It must be practiced. (S click on the word for how it sounds).

phonetic pronunciation: / 'saɪəntəsts /

figured pronunciation: / saintist /

• go bald : v. Go bald.

• Bald: this word does it sound? / Bɔ: ld /

phonetic pronunciation: / bɔ: ld / The sound / ɔ: / longer than the or English.

figured pronunciation: / bold /

interesting to remember the expression "go bald" because it does not seem to go bald.

2) They blame faulty Which cells seem to produce hair That is so thin That it is invisible to the naked eye.

Translation: blamed faulty cells apparently produce hair so fine it is invisible to the naked eye.

How far the English structure of the English?

will Cells without the definite article does not say "the cells" but simply "cells" without "the."

• Seem translates not as "looks" but "apparently".

• The term "naked eye " does not correspond with the English expression for "eye."

• Blame : / bleɪm / v. Blame. How does this word with guilt? "Guilty" in English is the same word. You've just discovered that in English are two different words.

• Faulty : adj.
defective
• Cells: noun.
cells
• So thin, so thin

• Naked eye: the eye. Literally "naked eye. Interesting expression. I have to repeat it several times before I left.

3) They expect to find a cure for baldness .

Translation: Expect to find a cure for baldness .

How far the English structure of the English?

is not very different. Just learning the new vocabulary.

Expect: How is it different this word "hope" and "wait" if they all mean "wait"? Here I have the answer.

Cure: cure. Almost the same in English, but it is a difficult word to pronounce.

phonetic pronunciation: / kjʊr /

Figurative speech: / Kiur /

Baldness: adj. Baldness. / Bɔ: ldnes /

try to remember now all the new words in context and with their respective sounds:

American scientists -> English scientists-> Japanese scientists Note: I emphasize the sound of "scientists "That's the hardest part of this expression.

Go bald: He is going to go bald. He Went bald. I'm going to go bald. Is he bald? Nobody likes to go bald.

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Poems The civilization of the show

Babelia The number 1.000 of the prestigious supplement of the newspaper El Pais in Spain, today published the prologue to the forthcoming book by Mario Vargas Llosa, "Civilization of the show" . In this paper, intelligent and controversial as it always is our Nobel Prize, there are fragments that warning to the current dominant culture, such as:

"We have never lived and now in an age so rich in scientific and technological findings and better equipped to beat the disease, ignorance and poverty and however, we have perhaps never been so confused and lost about certain basic issues like what we do here in this star with no light of its own that we had, if mere survival is the sole North justifying life, if words like spirit, ideals, pleasure, love, solidarity, art, creativity, soul, transcendence, still mean something, and if yes, what exactly is on them and what not. "

"Before, the raison d'être of culture was a response to this kind of questions, but what we understand by culture is completely exempt from such liability, we have been doing it something much more superficial and fickle, or a form of light entertainment for the general public or a rhetorical game, esoteric and obscurantist factions vain for his back to the whole society. "

"In the past, culture was always to do with those issues and was often best to call attention to such problems, an awareness that prevented educated people turn away from harsh and rude reality of their time. Now, rather, what we call culture is a mechanism to ignore the problematic issues, distract us from what is serious, immersed in a momentary "artificial paradise", slightly less than a substitute for a drag of marijuana or pull of coca, that is, a small vacation of unreality. "

"I want to put on my protest, so it is worth, which I know will not be long. There are too many interests involved, Helas. Probably the phenomenon described in this paper a few notes have no remedy, because it is already part of a way of being, to live, to dream and to believe in our time, and what this book misses is dust and ashes without resurrection possible. But it could be, too, because nothing stands still in the world we live in, that this phenomenon, the civilization of the show, perish unnoticed, by nature of its own inanity and trifle, and another replaces it, perhaps better, perhaps worse, the society of the future. "Making

click here to read the entire prologue, enjoy it.

Literature. Mario Vargas Llosa . civilization of spectacle. Newspaper El Pais, Spain.

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Billy Collins: Navigating through the center of the poem

In this article, the Peruvian writer Miguel Angel Zapata (*) reflects on the poetry in the United States and one of its greatest representatives present Billy Collins (March 22, 1941), who offers three beautiful texts translated into English. Collins is an American poet named Poet Laureate of the United States (Poet Laureate of the United States) from 2001 to 2003. He is a distinguished professor at Lehman College, City University of New York and a leading member of Winter Park distinctive Institute in Florida. Has been recognized as a Literary Lion by the New York Public Library (1992) and selected as the poet of the State of New York in 2004-2006.

In a nation as dispersed as the United States, find some sign of support for the arts and literature could be almost a miracle to some innocent. But we must recognize that the United States is one of the nations where the culture has a huge support (not reaching that should have due to their high income), which crystallizes with awards, grants, sponsorships, and fees for each reading of poetry or literary presentation. As in the rest of the world, poetry is a secret paradise, and the media almost no attention. That, at least could be positive if we defend his solitude and mystery. One exception comes to mind: Bill Moyers. The American journalist in the late eighties (1989) began a series on public television, The Power of the Word, dedicated to the dissemination of the poetic works of a select group of writers, so that a large majority could see and hear what the poets had to say today. Then publish a book of interviews with several poets from the United States. That was a great attempt to bring art to the people, mainly teenagers at the time, and children in public and private schools. One of the most significant awards recently went to the poet and university professor, Billy Collins (1938). Billy Collins was appointed Poet Laureate for two consecutive years (2002-2003), and Poet Laureate of New York (2004-2006). Collins author of several books of poetry, among them Picnic, Lightning, The Art of Drowning, Questions about Angels, Sailing Alone Around the Room, and Nine Horses. He has published his poems in American magazines of international repute such as Poetry, Paris Review and American Poetry Review. Billy Collins has received numerous awards and recognition from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. Write and publish poetry in a nation where the dark today is the metaphor of confusion, is already a heroic act of survival. The dream of the everyday is a rarity, and the dream of the impossible can be achieved only in the imagination of the arts and letters. It could say that most of the rulers of the United States have been more concerned with the art of war in the situation of literature or art, or more seriously the situation of human beings living in the great country of North, or those who were to die for their country. America is a land of great poets, who are and have been very influential in the literature. Just pointing out some names: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edgar Allan Poe, Amy Lowell, Gertrude Stein, William Carlos Williams, HD, TS Eliot, Erza Pound, ee cummings, Hart Crane, Ernest Hemingway, Robert Bly, Allen Ginsberg, Frank O'Hara John Ashbery, WAS Merwin, Mark Strand, Theodore Roethke, Charles Simic, Louise Glück, Margaret Atwood, James Tate, Yusef Komunyakaa, and Billy Collins. And while the candidates for president of the republic discuss their potential to control Iraq and terrorism, the poets read their poetry in cafés, universities, museums, publishing their books, and in the dark depths of the cities sometimes shouting out the sky and the government of its injustices and oversights, as a sign of dissatisfaction, and the health of the mystique of the sky and city life, you hear a song mundane and overwhelming of the Beastie Boys, Miles Davis and the other for long night.

Therefore, for foreign readers, and stakeholders (which are not always poets) who do not live in the United States, the translations (versions) of American poetry is a window to understand its culture and its poets. Accept the fact that poetry in this country has its adherents is not a romantic dream or nationalist but a tangible reality. Some friends, and Billy Collins himself has said on more than one occasion that so many readers of poetry as the poets themselves. There is a proviso in New York, the crowd that attends poetry is becoming more numerous, and it is not uncommon to hear recitals by John Ashbery, Charles Simic, Louise Glück, David Lehman, Billy Collins and Levin Philis, and dozens of poets from around the world that offer concerts every week in different parts of the Big Apple. Art in New York City can be seen not only looking at the shadow of skyscrapers in the era of postciudad, but also the vast amount of art galleries, cafes, museums, and universities. Among the many selected walks the poet Billy Collins with her black coat, out of school, or going for a coffee and read a book by Thomas De Quincey.

Collins's poetry brings fresh language to American poetry. Poetry is a linear and transparent in appearance, but if you read with patience and confidence, the reader encounters a deep and ironic poet, his poems contain in their walls a strange transparency. The beginning of each poem always brings something unexpected: "I pour a layer of salt on the table / and I draw a circle with my finger." The silence is immediate, and it seems confusing enjambment prompted by an odd sight. Billy Collins read his poems because transparency is a complex, not a baroque that is to say nothing. Is a transparency that leads through gardens forgotten in dreams, in the grass of a nightmare, and the discovery of a new word. The poetry and language are always listening to the poet writing his verses. The novelty is in how the unexpected is set to a poem: "I ask you to do water skiing / across the surface of the poem." Perhaps it suggests a new way of shaping the surface of a poem whose center is the water that changes its appearance with the wind of the pen, or forced by a water-skiing. Better still, here are the three versions of its readers fresh and profound poetry, like water, like the trains that fly through Manhattan.

Poems by Billy Collins

English versions of Miguel Angel Zapata

Design

pour a layer of salt on the table

and trace a circle with my finger.

This is the life cycle

tell anybody.

This is the wheel of fortune,

the Arctic Circle.

This is the ring of Kerry

and the white rose of Tralee

tell the ghosts of my family,

parents dead,

the aunt who drowned,

my brothers and sisters come,

my children to come.

This is the sun with its rays shining

and bitter moon.

This is the absolute circle geometry

tell the recess in the wall,

the birds that cross the window.

This is the wheel I just invented

to shoot for the rest of my life

and I say

touching my tongue with your finger.

Of Sailing Alone Around the Room (New York: Random House, 2001)

Center

I ask you to grab a poem

and hold up to the light

as a color transparency

or press an ear to their hive.

say drop a mouse into a poem

and watch to see how it goes

or walk into the room of the poem

and feel the walls

ask them to do water skiing

through the surface of a poem

But all I want to do

is tie the poem to a chair with a rope

and tortured to confess

They begin to beat him with a hose

to really know if it says

Of Saling ...

Litany

You are the bread and the knife,

The crystal goblet and the wine.

Jacques Crickillon

You are the bread and the knife,

the crystal goblet and the wine. You

dew on the grass

am and wheel

burning sun.

're the white apron of the baker

and marsh birds

suddenly in flight.

However, you are not the

wind in the orchard,

plums on the counter

or house of cards.

And certainly there are the air

fragrant pine.

In no way are the air

fragrant pine.

You may be the fish

under the bridge,

perhaps even the pigeon on his head General

,

but you can not even dream to be

the flower field corn

dusk.

And a quick look in the mirror

show that you are neither the boots in the corner or

the boat asleep in his shed.

you might be interested to know,

talking about the playful imagery of the world,

I am the sound of rain on the roof.

happens that I'm also shooting star,

the evening paper flying through the alley,

and the basket of chestnuts on the kitchen table.

I am also the moon through the trees,

cup of tea from the blind woman.

But do not worry, I'm not the bread and the knife.

You are still the bread and the knife.

will always be the bread and the knife,

not to mention the crystal goblet and-somehow-

wine

Nine Horses (2002 )

(*) Miguel Angel Zapata studied at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos de Lima, and earned a doctorate in philosophy at Washington University, USA. He currently resides in Long Island, New York, where he teaches head of Latin American literature at Hofstra University.

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