Campus welcomes Dominican poet for reading, book signing

Dr. Beatriz García Glick
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Spanish Club and the Faculty Senate Lectures and Events Committee  welcome Dominican poet,  Eddy Ulerio, on the 27 March,  at 7 p.m. in Graham 115 for a reading and book signing of his poems Travesía:  Estaciones del alma/ Voyage:  Seasons of the Soul. The book contains  63 poems about love, life, family,religion, and the Dominican Republic among other themes.  This bilingual presentation will include readings in both Spanish and English of several poems,  an informal discussion with the author and a book signing session.  Eddy Ulerio, the poet,  Marisol Espaillat, a Spanish translator from NYC,  and other local bilingual poets will be at the presentation to discuss  the author’s work as well as his importance in Dominican literature.  His book “Travesía”  is on reserve at the library and the following is an excerpt of one of his poems:  

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Tu presencia fertiliza de caricias, 
Los surcos hostiles, lleno de imagines 
Y sonidos de mi desierto de soñar. . .

Eres (poem title), la más fina expression 
Del lenguaje simbólico de la 
Naturaleza que no pierde un solo Instante, 
para anonadarnos con sus 
Besos de vida.

Your presence fertilizes the caresses, 
the hostile furrows,  filled with images 
and sounds of my dreaming desert . . .

You are (poem title) the finest expression 
of the symbolic language of 
Nature that doesn’t waste 
an instant to shake us with
Its life’s kisses.