Poem

Gustavo Adolfo Garcés

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Childhood

Childhood
comes back silently

I feel my father’s hands
holding me tight

© Translation: 2007, Nicolás Suescún

Infancia

Infancia

La infancia
regresa en silencio

siento que me aprietan
las manos de mi padre

© 2006, Gustavo Adolfo Garcés
From: Libreta de apuntes
Publisher: Universidad Externado de Colombia, Bogotá

Gustavo Adolfo Garcés

Gustavo Adolfo Garcés

(Colombia, 1957)

A lawyer with a master’s degree in political studies, Gustavo Adolfo Garcés has been a professor of literature and political science in several universities, and works in the National Solicitors office of Human Rights and Ethnic Matters. One of the most original of Colombian contemporary poets, he has published five books of remarkably condensed and deliciously ironic poems — quite opposed to t...

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Childhood

Childhood
comes back silently

I feel my father’s hands
holding me tight

© 2007, Nicolás Suescún
From: Libreta de apuntes

Childhood

Childhood
comes back silently

I feel my father’s hands
holding me tight

© 2007, Nicolás Suescún

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