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Gustavo Adolfo Garcés

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Invisible stars

There are nights
in which one discovers
the stairs
the door
and the lock

but the room
remains secret

© Translation: 2007, Nicolás Suescún

Estrellas invisibles

Estrellas invisibles

Hay noches
en que uno descubre
la escalera
la puerta
y la cerradura

pero la habitación
sigue siendo secreta

© 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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Invisible stars

There are nights
in which one discovers
the stairs
the door
and the lock

but the room
remains secret

© 2007, Nicolás Suescún
From: Libreta de apuntes

Invisible stars

There are nights
in which one discovers
the stairs
the door
and the lock

but the room
remains secret

© 2007, Nicolás Suescún

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