Literature
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Two Sheep herders and a Puma, a Quechua Joke from Cuzco
Speakers of Quechua love to laugh, tease each other, and tell jokes.They find their humor in the situations of everyday…
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A Poem in Quechua, The Great Language of Cuzco
The Quechua language, although threatened, continues to live strongly in Cuzco. People often say that it claims between fifteen and…
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Treacherous Chola, a Poem by Luís Nieto Miranda
Luís Nieto MIranda's poem "La Chola Bandida" in translation.
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Charanguito, a Poem by Luís Nieto Miranda
A translation into English of Luis Nieto Miranda's poem Charanguito.
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Cuzco’s Sicuani, Nieto’s Small Fatherland
Though he lived other places, the poet Luís Nieto MIranda´s life was marked by Sicuani, a major provincial city of…
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Wind and Flute Wail in Nieto’s Poem
Luís Nieto Miranda, the great poet of Cuzco, grasped the Andean landscape and people's interactions with it in this poem,…
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Pisac and the Legend of the Enchanted Princess
In the memory of the traditional town of Pisac, a picturesque place in the Sacred Valley of ancient customs, lives…
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On the Edge of a Memory with Cuzco’s Luís Nieto Miranda
Cuzco’s celebrated poet, Luís Nieto Miranda draws on the traditions of romances to create a set of images of life…
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Nieto’s Romance of Song and Sorrow
Unrequited love, what could be more common and more human. Yet it is not the model of the couple dominant…
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Sonata by Cuzco’s Luís Nieto Miranda
A poet of lyric power, Cuzco's celebrated poet José Luís Nieto Miranda writes from the life of Cuzco's working class,…
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