On the Cutting Edge: Selected Poems

by Justo Jorge Padrón, Louis Bourne (Translator)

English (translation)
Original Spanish

155 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1988

Reviews

[Goodreeds User · Rating 1 out of 5]

Less 'cutting edge' and more 'edgy'... eye-rollingly bad. All cliched, stale ideas, compensated for with over the top Broody Moody Doom and Gloom.... it feels bad to rate someone's life's work so low, but there just wasn't one half-good poem in here. Maybe the good bits got lost in translation

[Angela · Rating 5 out of 5]

For one of my favorites poems: "To see you":
"To see you, to see myself in your eyes and feel
Your unleashed laughter
Like the sacred home of Earth.
I receive from your hands and from your lips
This fire offering magic and order, a road
For my boundless heart.

I listen to your words
Like a shower of light,
Tiny from their simplicity.
With what fresh tenderness
You give me open-handedly
Translucent loyalty,
Jubilant kindness and truth.
Because you are the longing in every distance,
Your presence with greater yearning rises in my blood
And the splendour of the world amidst your body."