Tag: love
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TIMES PAST
Our translation of Gabriel Ferrater’s penetrating Catalan poem TIMES PAST Gabriel FerraterTranslation from Catalan of “Temps enrera” by Brett Hetherington and Antoni Cardona.Let me escape from here and go back to your timeLet’s meet again in the same place as alwaysI look up to the white sky, the thin black iron footbridge,the humble herb in…
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“I never saw my mother”
In surely one of the most moving passages ever written in the English language, former US slave Frederick Douglass penned words that remind me of something vitally important. ‘I never saw my mother, to know her as such, more than four or five times in my life, and each of these times was in very short duration,…
Brett Hetherington 