The Difficult Days

Roberto Sosa

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The Difficult Days

Roberto Sosa
Translated by: Jim Lindsey

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 1983

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Volume 64 | The Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation

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Roberto Sosa was born in Honduras in 1930. Expressing the oppression and poverty of his country, the poems in The Difficult Days are from Un Mutido Para Todos Dividido and Los Pobres, which won the Adonais Prize for Poetry in Madrid in 1968.

Originally published in 1983.

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Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	vii
Esta Luz Que Subscribo/ This Light I Subscribe To Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
Los Pobres/ The Poor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	4
Transparencia/ Transparency Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	6
Los Peldanos Que Faltan/ The Missing Stairs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	8
Los Indios/ The Indians Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	10
La Realidad/ Reality Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	14
La Yerba Cortada por los Campesinos/ The Grass the Feasants Cut Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	16
Los Elegidos de la Violencia/ Those the Violence Selects Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	20
Las Voces No Escuchadas de los Ricos/ Unheard Voices of the Rich Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	22
La Muerte Otra/ The Other Death Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	24
Los Claustros/ The Sanctuary Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	26
La Hora Baja/ Low Hour Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	28
Malignos Bailarines sin Cabeza/ Wicked Headless Dancers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	32
Las Sales Enigmáticas/ The Mysterious Sallies Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	34
Piano Vacío/ Empty Piano Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	36
La Batalla Oscura/ The Dark War Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	38
Mi Padre/ My Father Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	40
Arte Espacial/ Spatial Art Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	54
Canción para un Gato Muerto/ Song For A Dead Cat Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	56
Testimonios/ Testimonies Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	58
Los Días Difíciles/ The Difficult Days Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	60
Después de los Encuentros/ After The Encounters Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	64
Un Anormal Volumen de Lluvia (Crónica de un Juicio Final)/ An Unusual Amount Of Rain (A Doomsday Report) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	66
Descripción de una Ciudad en Peligro/ Description Of An Endangered City Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	70
El Aire Que Nos Queda/ The Air We Have Left Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	74
El Lnvierno Puede Ser Un Inválido/ Winter Can Be an Invalid Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	76
La Arena del Desierto Que Comparto con Otros/ The Desert Sand I Share with Others Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	78

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Poetry; Honduras; Dictatorship; Literature; Amado Nervo; The Other Hand; Miguel Ángel Asturias; Misery (novel); Poetaster; Criticism; God Knows (novel); Giovanni Papini; El laberinto; The Anthologist; Assassination; Antonomasia; Idiot; Franz Kafka; Gabriel García Márquez; Simone de Beauvoir; Iuz; My Country; Mourning; In Cold Blood; Editorial; Pity; Jean-Paul Sartre; La Santa; Bourgeoisie; Llovizna (telenovela); Cruelty; Tilt up; Irony; Honduran literature; Garganta; Syphilis; Newspaper; Nicaragua; First contact (science fiction); Manuscript; Mansion; The First Man; Howl; Novelist; Biography; Wax museum; The Various; All things; Drawing room; Insurance; Housewife; Bodyguard; Fireworks; City Of; Meekness; Afternoon Tea; Prehistory; Oligarchy; Writer; My Child; Pamphlet; Pawnbroker; Mannequin; Common knowledge; State of affairs (sociology); La Boca; Adviser; Desert sand (color); Latin America; Classical Greece

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