Previous quotes selected by Isabel Espinal


2005-2006

From A Far
What nationality
or what kindred and relation
what blood relation
what blood ties of blood
what ancestry
what race generation
what house clan tribe stock strain
what lineage extraction
what breed sect gender denomination caste
what stray ejection misplaced
Tertium Quid neither one thing nor the other
Tombe des nues de naturalized
what transplant to dispel upon

-from DICTEE, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha


2002-2005

...if we say love
we speak of many things.
You mean the Buenos Aires moon,
the blond streetlamps,
the dance you danced.

But I know it as the wrist,
a shoe, a bruise,
a bone, a stick.

-from "I understand it as a kiss," in My Wicked Wicked Ways , Sandra Cisneros


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