A Poem Goes About on Foot by Joaquín Pasos, translated by Roger Hickin Agnes Langeland 2018 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award

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A Poem Goes About on Foot by Joaquín Pasos, translated by Roger Hickin Agnes Langeland 2018 Kingsley Tufts Poetry AwardA Poem Goes About on Foot is a bilingual selection of twenty one poems with translations from the Spanish by New Zealand translator Roger Hickin. Joaqun Pasos (191447) was a precocious Nicaraguan poet who by the time he was sixteen was one of the pillars of the experimental Vanguardia group. His work, which ranges from playful lyrics to the apocalyptic masterpiece Canto de guerra de las cosas, appeared in journals at home and abroad, but he never