poetry
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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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Literature
A Big Cat Slinks: Poems on Cuzco
One of the world's great tourist attractions, Cuzco is also a living city whose name has great resonance among indigenous…
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Homage to Javier Heraud
Homage to Javier Heraud with original poetry and translation by Shawn Dallas Stradley of "Palabra de Guerrillero".
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Nieto’s “Romance of Song and Sorrow”
The master of Cuzco's verse, Luís (El Cholo) Nieto Miranda, writes of the ways love can exalt and leave one…
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Commentary
Nieto’s “The Romance of the Charangos”
A knife fight between young men who hope to attract the attention of an attractive young woman is at the…
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Sorrow on the Puna, a Translation of Luís Nieto’s Poem
Wind rushes across the high, grassy land that stretches between Peru’s river valleys and its snowy, mountain peaks as if…
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Entertainment
Song to Cuzco and its Holy Stones
Today is Cuzco’s Day, the culmination of a month of festivities and its celebration of self with the massive Inti…
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Lament and Creation, a Poem by Luis Nieto Miranda
An electromagnet for tourists, Cuzco also has a long history of intellectual and artistic life. Among its brilliant stars of…
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Sacred Fall of Leaves
Vallejo and his work is an enigma, just like so many other people and things in Peru. Generally considered one…
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