Amantes by Jorgue Gaitan Duran

1. Jorge Gaitan Duran,poem – lovers
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Amantes
Somoscomo sonlosque se aman.
Al desnudarnosdescubrimosdos
monstruosos
desconocidosque se estrechanatientas,
cicatricescon que el rencorosodeseo
señalaa losque sindescansose aman:
el tedio,lasospechaque invenciblenosata
ensu red,como enla faltados dioses
adúlteros.
Enamoradoscomo doslocos,
dos astrossanguinarios,dosdinastías
que hambrientasse disputan unreino,
queremosserjusticia,nosacechamos
feroces,
nos engañamos,nosinferimoslasviles
injurias
con que el cieloafrentaa losque se aman.
Sólopara que mil vecesnosincendie
el abrazo que enel mundosonlos que se
aman
mil vecesmorimoscadadía.
Lovers
We are the oneswholove eachother.
Whenwe undress,we discovertwo
monstrous
Strangerswhogrope,
Scars withwhichthe spiteful desire
Pointstothose whorelentlesslylove each
other:
The tedium, the suspicionthatinvincible ties
us
In hisnet,as inthe lack of twoadulterous
gods.
In love like twocrazy,
Two bloodthirstystars,twodynasties
How hungrytheydispute akingdom,
We wantto be justice,we stalkfierce,
We deceive ourselves,we inferthe vile
insults
Withwhichheaveninsultsthose wholove
each other.
Justso that a thousandtimeswe catch fire
The embrace in the worldare those wholove
each other
A thousandtimeswe die everyday.

2. Jorge Gaitan Duran
Colombian poet and essayist, born in Pamplona
(Norte de Santander) in 1925, and died in the
French West Indies in 1962. He completed his
primary and secondary education in Pamplona,
and law school at the Universidad Javeriana de
Santafé de Bogotá. He married Dina Moscovicci,
whose daughterwasbornPaula.Atthe beginning
of his careerhe was reviewerinthe newspaperEl
Tiempoand some national cultural magazines.In
1950 he left for Europe, and in Paris he took
several film courses and film criticism. During
1952 until 1954 traveledbyRussia,China,crossed
Europe,livedinLondonandwasabrief timeinRio
de Janeiro. When he returned to Colombia, he
was a founding member of the Editorial Antares,
he taught at the Universidad Nacional and
founded the magazine Mito in 1955. This literary
publication was one of the most important in
LatinAmericainthe earlyyearsof the secondhalf
of the twentieth century: in it he published his
first writings Gabriel García Márquez , and there
were also accommodate some collaborations of
authors as prestigious as Vicente Aleixandre ,
Alejo Carpentier , Julio Cortazar and Carlos Fuentes . Luis Cernuda published in Mito his famous
poem "Spanish Diptych".
He traveled back to Europe in 1956, where he became spokesman intellectual movement against
the dictatorshipof General GustavoRojasPinilla.In1959 he divorcedhiswife Dinaandstruckupa
newrelationshipwiththe sculptressFelizaBursztyn.Whenhe returnedtoColombiafromParis,he
died when his plane crashed.
Taken fromhttp://www.mcnbiografias.com/app-bio/do/show?key=gaitan-duran-jorge