ORGE CONTRERAS HERRERA

JORGE CONTRERAS HERRERA

DESCRIPTION OF HER

You are the birth of light,

the gaze’s exaltation,

the tenderness of the fruit with its poem’s sap.

You are the storm that seduces in the mountain,

fragile as a quivering tear on fallen leaves.

You are the dancing clarity in the dark forest.

Jorge Contreras Herrera

“DESCRIPCIÓN DE ELLA”

TRANSLATION FROM SPANISH. LUZ MARÍA LÓPEZ (PUERTO RICO)

STORM TAMER

Amid the storm

I am the captain of this ship

Character steers here,

-there’s no return-

only the cowards get drown.

With one hand I greet the lightning,

with the other the thunder.

Blow airstreams

say your poem

to this sailor.

I am the storm tamer.

Have taken Acheron

to its mandate.

I am the mermaids’ enchanter.

I am Nobody for the blind.

I am for the one who sighs, Circe.

I am the one who listens to the poem

from the lips herself of poetry.

Jorge Contreras Herrera

“DOMADOR DE TEMPESTADES”

TRANSLATION BY LUZ MARÍA LÓPEZ (PUERTO RICO)

WRITE TO YOU

To write to you is to lay all hopes to soak

create an oasis in the middle of the silence

throw an emotion clot amid words

is to lose the patience of being hushed

to write to you,

is to let the veins fall as lashes do

to look at the executioner's eyes and see that he is crying

to write to you,

is as soul’s transfusion into the arteries of your spirit.

To write to you is saving you from oblivion.

Jorge Contreras Herrera

“ESCRIBIRTE”

TRANSLATION BY LUZ MARÍA LÓPEZ (PUERTO RICO)

JORGE CONTRERAS HERRERA

JORGE CONTRERAS HERRERA: (Mexico, 1978). Poet, writer, essayist, editor, reading promoter and cultural manager. Director of The Ablucionistas A.C. Health and Happiness through Art and Culture. Director of the Ignacio Rodríguez Galván International Poetry Festival and José María Heredia International Poetry Festival in Mexico. Compiler of the anthology “Tribute to Sabines: here we are all together” and Jose María Heredia International Poetry Festival Anthology (2017). Author of five poetry books. He has collaborated with The Journal of the University of Mexico and prestigious literary magazines. His poems have been translated to various languages. He has been a juror at the José Carlos Becerra State Poetry Prize of Tabasco, the Josué Mirlo National Poetry Prize and the National Literature Prizein 2016. He was awarded the “Professor Rafael Cravioto Muñoz” University Recognition for the Reading Advancement Program at the XXIX Edition of the University Book Fair, of the Autonomous University of the State of Hidalgo (UAEH), Mexico.