immanent visitor
“…the blue way you envelop the world,/ the blue way you adore it./ I’m saddened and in love with your blue way.” By Jaime Saenz, translated from Spanish by Kent Johnson and Forrest Gander.
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death at the very touch
“The very touch is the greatest of miracles because the very touch sends two marbles rolling such that they are one…” By Jaime Saenz, translated from Spanish by Ted Dodson.
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the cold
“You, who always show up in the winter, year after year;/ you, who get lost/ and walk in the streets, and without meaning to, teach/ me to live and help me to die…” By Jaime Saenz, translated from Spanish by Kit Schluter.
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Disgraphias of the poet: the drawings of Jaime Saenz
“What should one do when the time comes to look at the pen strokes of the drawings of Jaime Saenz, the circular strokes and dizzy loops?…” Excerpted from an essay by Marcelo Villena Alvarado.
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