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Kirmen Uribe

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ESPETXEKO HAIKUAK/JAILHOUSE HAIKUS

9.

Using your fist hit
the iron cell door, repeat.
A prisoner has died.

© Translation: 2020, Elizbeth Macklin

ESPETXEKO HAIKUAK/JAILHOUSE HAIKUS

9.

Ukabilaz jo
burdinazko atea.
Hil da presoa.

© 2019, Kirmen Uribe
From: 17 Segundo
Publisher: Susa, Zarautz

Kirmen Uribe

Kirmen Uribe

(Basque Country, Spain, 1970)

In his short introduction to the poems below (see poem #1), the Basque writer Kirmen Uribe writes, of haikus, that they’re “the poetic form closest to silence”. In Spain when its dictatorship ended in 1975, the social covenant agreed upon at the time was said to be one of silence. Uribe’s generation in Spain has conscientiously engaged in exercises of historical memory. And these poems, for all...

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ESPETXEKO HAIKUAK/JAILHOUSE HAIKUS

9.

Using your fist hit
the iron cell door, repeat.
A prisoner has died.

© 2020, Elizbeth Macklin
From: 17 Segundo

ESPETXEKO HAIKUAK/JAILHOUSE HAIKUS

9.

Using your fist hit
the iron cell door, repeat.
A prisoner has died.

© 2020, Elizbeth Macklin

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