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  A Certain Roughness in Their Syntax Poems by Jorge Aulicino Translated by Judith Filc Tu p e l o P r e s s North Adams, Massachusetts  Translation copyright © 2017 Judith Filc. All rights reserved. isbn: 978-1-946482-02-0 A Certain Roughness in Their Syntax: Translator’s Introduction When asked why he writes, Jorge Aulicino answers that he started writing poetry because he was fascinated by the movements of words in a poem; there, “words behaved differently.” He is particularly interested in images, and believes that poetic images are “physical images,” (1)   that is, visual images seen with the eyes of the mind. The object, he says, “is charged with imagination and spirit, and there is no object that is not charged also with history, with life, with humanity.”  When he writes a poem, he tries to “imagine it materially,” even if the poem will finally become an abstract idea, a meditation. (2)  His point of departure, he says, is always what he sees. In the fir...

by Jorge Aulicino English translation by Silvia Camerotto. The original version in Spanish was published by  Ediciones del Dock : Buenos Aires, 1999 Book I / Confutatis A sudden feeling of dizziness and grandeur, in the street, you must have tasted it, Wolfgang, have you? All that breathing which comes out from inhabited bays, warm daybreaks, sounds of the jungles and excavators. Look at that man in a bar from an aloof distance. He has understood amid a maelstrom of braking, of sirens and rough engines’ chirps that debts may be forgotten, and the painful awakening, the withdrawal of the tide of things, the historical instant of the substance: is eternal now; and he fears it. Who would have known it? Just as each man carries his own secret cancer, when the delirium of knowledge absorbs him, nobody gets onto. Wolfgang, every now and then assailed by the vertigo, would nevertheless have done lightening appeased by violins, an alibi. The man in the bar has paid for...