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Gustavo Adolfo Garcés

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My friends

I had a happy

sleepless night
thinking about my friends

incredible so much laughter
in my memory

© Translation: 2007, Nicolás Suescún

Mis amigos

Mis amigos

Tuve un insomnio feliz

pasé la noche en vela
pensando en mis amigos

increíble tanta risa
en la memoria

© 2006, Gustavo Adolfo Garcés
From: Libreta de apuntes
Publisher: Universidad Externado de Colombia, Bogotá

Gustavo Adolfo Garcés

Gustavo Adolfo Garcés

(Colombia, 1957)

A lawyer with a master’s degree in political studies, Gustavo Adolfo Garcés has been a professor of literature and political science in several universities, and works in the National Solicitors office of Human Rights and Ethnic Matters. One of the most original of Colombian contemporary poets, he has published five books of remarkably condensed and deliciously ironic poems — quite opposed to t...

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My friends

I had a happy

sleepless night
thinking about my friends

incredible so much laughter
in my memory

© 2007, Nicolás Suescún
From: Libreta de apuntes

My friends

I had a happy

sleepless night
thinking about my friends

incredible so much laughter
in my memory

© 2007, Nicolás Suescún

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