Poem

Luís Miguel Nava

Side by side

Original language

Two Rivers

With my body split into two halves
locked up
one inside the other, I advance
in a double heart as if
in one boat plying two rivers.

© Translation: 2008, Richard Zenith

Dois rios

Dois rios

O corpo dividido em duas partes
fechadas
à chave uma na outra, avanço
num duplo coração como se fosse
ao mesmo tempo num só barco por dois rios.

© 1989, Fundação Luís Miguel Nava
From: O Céu Sob as Entranhas
Publisher: Limiar, Oporto

Luís Miguel Nava

Luís Miguel Nava

(Portugal, 1957 - 1995)

Luís Miguel Nava, who published the bulk of his work in the 1980s, was perhaps the strongest and most original Portuguese poet to come to light in that decade. Brutally assassinated in Brussels, in May of 1995, when just 37 years old, Nava published his first book – which he soon renounced – when still an adolescent. This was followed, in 1979, by Películas (Films), which won the prize for emer...

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Two Rivers

With my body split into two halves
locked up
one inside the other, I advance
in a double heart as if
in one boat plying two rivers.

© 2008, Richard Zenith
From: O Céu Sob as Entranhas

Two Rivers

With my body split into two halves
locked up
one inside the other, I advance
in a double heart as if
in one boat plying two rivers.

© 2008, Richard Zenith

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