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[and love]

Susana Thénon | Translated by Karen Elizabeth Bishop

and love
and cloud hive
and deep in the middle
and without day

and gauge
and worn out vein
and love
and resurrexit

and invisible gangrene
and love
in living stone

and guts between glass
and more night
and more nausea

and love love rust
and mask and stairless tower

and more hole
and more wall
and more well downward born

and love
and fusible love
and oh my vermin
and love without anything

[y amor]

y amor
y avispero de nube y
hondo al centro y sin
día

y sonda
y veta exhausta
y amor
y resurrexit

y gangrena invisible y
amor
en piedra viva

y víscera entre vidrios y
más noche
y más nausea

y amor amor herrumbre
y mascarilla y torre sin escala

y más hueco y
más muro
y más pozo naciéndose hacia abajo

y amor
y amor fusible y
alimaña de mí y
amor sin nada

Susana Thénon (1935-1991) was an experimental Argentine poet, translator, essayist, and photographer. “[y amor]” appears for the first time posthumously in the collection La morada imposible, edited by María Negroni.

Karen Elizabeth Bishop is a UK/US poet, translator, and scholar. Her debut collection of poems, the deering hour, was published by Ornithopter Press. She teaches at Rutgers University.

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