¿Las oyes cómo piden realidades? (Do You Hear How They Beg for Realities?) by Pedro Salinas

December 4th, 2009 § 0

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One of my own videos, using footage I shot last spring of a garter snake mating ball to illustrate a favorite poem from the great 20th-century Spanish poet Pedro Salinas. I recently found an audio track of Salinas himself reading the poem, and dubbed that over some public-domain electronica from the Internet Archive.

Salinas left out one phrase from the printed version of the poem, which I’ve represented in the subtitles with an ellipsis: “que… [es la nada]” — “which… [is the nothing].”

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