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Veronica Jaffe
Born in Caracas in 1957. Doctor in German literature. Poet, translator, and essayist, has worked in publishing. Books published: El arte de la pérdida, 1991; El largo viaje a casa, 1994. She started the website www.laletra.info, for Venezuelan literature in translation. |
LOU ANDREAS SALOME, ONE MORNING IN CARACAS Day has dawned on the guava tree in the garden They'll go up with her to the bedroom, they'll caress She turns round, She thinks it's time, day has come and the light The Dutch poet exhausted "Rocking a strange woman in your arms, Toads and snakes, therefore,
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SEBUCAN, CARACAS, OR THE UNICORN OF NIGHT Seeing off an old friend in the street on the asphalt the wound scared me of its sagging skin, which at that moment was hanging I recited a small prayer
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