Song of the Jaguar
The loud call of the kui-kúi,
scares me without fail;
I sense my tracks
in every road every man ever made
after having slain
the clumsy youth.
100 Refutations | Poetry | Spanish
June, 2018The loud call of the kui-kúi,
scares me without fail;
I sense my tracks
in every road every man ever made
after having slain
the clumsy youth.
The poem featured here was written by an unknown Guaraní poet.
Lina M. Ferreira C.-V. earned MFAs in creative nonfiction writing and literary translation from The University of Iowa. She is the author of Drown Sever Sing from Anomalous Press and Don’t Come Back from Mad River Books, as well as editor, with Sarah Viren, of the forthcoming anthology Essaying the Americas. Her fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and translation work has been featured in journals including Bellingham Review, Chicago Review, Fourth Genre, Brevity, Poets & Writers, and The Sunday Rumpus, among others. She won Best of the Net and Iron Horse Review’s Discovered Voices Award, has been nominated for two Pushcart Prizes, and is a Rona Jaffe fellow. She moved from Colombia to China to Columbus, Ohio to Richmond, Virginia, where she works as an assistant professor for Virginia Commonwealth University. Visit www.linawritesessays.com.
English translation copyright (c) Lina M. Ferreira C.-V., 2018.