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Gastão Cruz

Side by side

WALL

The thick transparency
of the air that slowly
took shape so quickly
before one’s gaze

is that of a fluid wall
that won’t let through
the impure murmur
of a voice with neither light nor air

MURO

A transparência espessa
do ar que devagar
se formou tão depressa
em frente do olhar

é a de um muro fluido
que não deixa passar
o impuro murmúrio
da voz sem luz nem ar

Gastão Cruz

(Portugal, 1941)

Gastão Cruz was born in 1941 in Faro, the capital city of the Algarve, Portugal’s southern-most coastal region. In 1958 he went to study at the University of Lisbon’s Faculty of Letters, where he completed a degree in Germanic Studies. In 1961 he took part in the publication of a poetic collective called Poesia 61, in which he published his first collection of poems, Percussive Death. This was ...

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WALL

The thick transparency
of the air that slowly
took shape so quickly
before one’s gaze

is that of a fluid wall
that won’t let through
the impure murmur
of a voice with neither light nor air

WALL

The thick transparency
of the air that slowly
took shape so quickly
before one’s gaze

is that of a fluid wall
that won’t let through
the impure murmur
of a voice with neither light nor air