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Sierra
An
invisible hand
silently caresses
the sad pulp
of the rolling worlds.
Someone,
I don't know who,
has steeped my heart
in sweetness.
In the August snow
the blossom of the peach tree--
early flowering--
opens to the sun.
Stretched
out on the sierra's
ochre ridge,
a frozen woman of granite;
the wind howls
the grief of her lonely bosom.
Butterflies
of moon
sip
her frozen
breasts
by night.
And on my eyelids,
a tear swells
older than my body.
Alfonsina
Storni
Translated
from the Spanish by Rachel Benson
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Mount
Triglav is the highest (9,396 feet [2,864 m]) mountain
peak in Slovenia and is part of the Julian Alps, situated
40 miles (64 km) northwest of the city of Ljubljana.
The north wall of the peak forms an enormous limestone
face nearly 2 miles (3 km) wide. From the time of its
first ascent in 1778, the summit has rewarded climbers
with an excellent view that extends north into Austria
and south to the Adriatic Sea. Until the Treaty of Paris
in 1947, the peak was located on the Yugoslavian-Italian
border. The Triglav National Park comprises an area
of glacial lakes and Alpine plant life.
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The
reading on Mount Triglav and Ljubljana was conducted
by Iztok Osojnik with Vilenica.
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Iztok
Osojnik, born in Ljubljana in 1951, is a poet, novelist,
essayist, translator and painter. He studied comparative
literature at Ljubljana University, and pursued postgraduate
studies at University for linguistics in Osaka, Japan.
A freelancer till 1998, Osojnik writes satirical, love
and meditative lyric poetry, as well as essays and prose.
His works include the 15 published collections of verse
and 4 novels. Most recently Spleen of Berlin,
1999, and a novel entitled The Story of Dušan Pirjevec
and Me, 1999 were published. He also published two
chapbooks of verse in English: A Shepherd of Silence,
1996, New Born Stars (with Uroš Zupan), 1998
and a book of verse Alluminations, 1998. Another
collection of verse in English And some Things happen
for the First Time (Modry Peter Publishers, Toronto)
will be published this year. Last year he was a fellow
of Cambridge Seminar 2000 On the Contemporary English
Writers. From 1998 he has been the director of International
literary gathering Vilenica.
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Alfonsina
Storni was born at sea to Argentine parents who
registered her birth in Switzerland, she grew up in
the provinces of San Juan and Santa Fe. In her early
twenties she went to Buenos Aires where she lived the
rest of her life. Self-supporting from the age of thirteen,
she traveled with a theatre company, wrote plays for
children, worked as a teacher, a milliner, and a journalist.
she had one son. The publication of her first book in
1916 brought immediate recognition, and she was soon
accorded the stature of a major poet throughout Latin
America. In 1938, incurably ill, she drowned herself
in the waters of Mar del Plata.
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