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1. Jorge Gaitan Duran,poem – lovers
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Amantes
Somoscomo sonlosque se aman.
Al desnudarnosdescubrimosdos
monstruosos desconocidosque se estrechan
a tientas, cicatricesconque el rencoroso
deseoseñalaalosque sindescansose aman:
El tedio,lasospechaque invencible nosata
ensu red,como enla faltados dioses
adúlteros.
Enamoradoscomo doslocos, dos astros
sanguinarios,dosdinastías que hambrientas
se disputanunreino, queremosserjusticia,
nos acechamosferoces, nosengañamos,nos
inferimoslasvilesinjurias conque el cielo
afrentaa 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, scarswith
whichthe spiteful desire pointstothose who
relentlesslylove eachother:
The tedium, the suspicionthatinvincible ties
us inhisnet,as in the absence of two
adulterousgods.
In love like two insanes,twocruel stars,two
dynasties how starvingtheydispute a
kingdom, we wanttobe justice,we stalk
fierce, we deceive ourselves,we inferthe
despicable insultswithwhichheaven
affronts those wholove eachother.
Justso that a thousandtimeswe catch fire
the embrace inthe worldare those wholove
each other,a thousandtimeswe die every
day.
Jorge Gaitan Duran

2. 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