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Myriam Moscona
Myriam Moscona
Her collection Ivory Black (Negro marfil), translated from the Spanish by Jen Hofer, received the Harold Morton Landon Award from the Academy of American Poets in 2012...
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Ivory Black [Not to speak]

 
by Myriam Moscona

  Not to speak
To see and to translate into moans    It's not pain
  To moan from birth
  Only the eye and the conquering of a tongue
  (that you wanted to say that for the slit?)

  To return toward hearing (to touch oneself) via the
  heart is heard slowly
  Is guarded like a black poem as if it were an eye
				who might rain






From Negro marfil / Ivory Black by Myriam Moscona. Copyright © 2011 by Jen Hofer. Published by Les Figues Press. Reprinted with permission of the translator.
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