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By Attilio Bertolucci
Translated By Cyrus Cassells
Invoked every sundown, it’s you, painted on clouds
rouging our treasured plain and all who walk it,
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city-bound, in the radiance of a just-stopped shower;
it’s you, mother eternally young, courtesy of death’s
plucking hand, rose at...
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Jorge, no matter where we go together
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of history. The government funds artists to prove this.
It’s why there’s an official stamp on Carlos Fuentes’s
first novel,...

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butt in the black pants of you. I wanted a man...
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