A Cloud of Witnesses: Sample: Cloud of Witnesses

With

The moon ain't nothing but a broken dish
by Luis Felipe Fabre
translated by Jason Stumpf
(Achiote 2008)

From the Foreword: "Here lyric and essay are intertwined, experience and examination are inextricable. Wonder casts Fabre's poems into existence. Behind each are questions of 'how' or 'why' pursued from unexpected angles. His poems progress, stray, shift, and turn. Once begun, they form a world. Though they end, they do not finish."

Aurora
by Pura Lopez-Colome
translated by Jason Stumpf
(Shearsman 2007)

“Pura López-Colomé’s poems trace spare, vibrant arcs between the realms of matter and spirit, illuminating each with the light of the other. By means of a quiet yet fervent lyricism, at once celebratory and elegiac, they set out again and again on a voyage beyond self towards a site perhaps impossible fully to determine: mare magnum, 'first scene / of the next day.' It is our privilege indeed to be invited along.” —Michael Palmer

"López-Colomé’s poems are light displays in and of themselves, flashing across the sky of the silent page with Stumpf’s translations acting as auroral translations to capture, through the lens of English, López-Colomé’s brilliance."—C.S. Perez, Zoland Poetry Review

Connecting Lines: New Poetry from Mexico
Edited by Luis Cortés Bargalló
Contains my translations or Coral Bracho and Luis Miguel Aguilar
(Sarabande 2006)