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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...