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- Members:
- Lourdes Perez with Javier Chaparro, Eva Ybarra, Kay Rivers, Margaret Coltman, Oliver Rajamani, Peter Ermey, Javier Palacios
- Genre:
- World: Puerto Rican; Latin Progressive Folk/Classical; Sovereignty, Dignity, Liberation and Longing
- Hometown:
- San Sebastian and Moca, Puerto Rico
- Record Label:
- Chee Wee Records, Vivavoce Records
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Monday, July 21 at 9:00pm
Lourdes Perez
The Prison Cell
by Mahmoud Darwish
Translated from Arabic by Ben Bennani
It is possible
It is possible at least sometimes…
It is possible especially now
To ride a horse
Inside a prison cell
And run away……
It is possible for prison walls,
To disappear,
For the cell to become a distant land
Without frontiers:
-What did you do with th...e walls?
-I gave them back to the rocks.
-And what did you do with the ceiling?
-I turned it into a saddle.
-And your chain?
-I turned it into a pencil.
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by Mahmoud Darwish
Translated from Arabic by Ben Bennani
It is possible
It is possible at least sometimes…
It is possible especially now
To ride a horse
Inside a prison cell
And run away……
It is possible for prison walls,
To disappear,
For the cell to become a distant land
Without frontiers:
-What did you do with th...e walls?
-I gave them back to the rocks.
-And what did you do with the ceiling?
-I turned it into a saddle.
-And your chain?
-I turned it into a pencil.
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The prison guard got angry.
He put an end to the dialogue.
He said he didn’t care for poetry,
And bolted the door of my cell.
He came back to see me
In the morning;
He shouted at me:
-Where did all this water come from?
-I brought it from the Nile.
-And the trees?
-From the orchards of Damascus.
-And the music?
-From my heartbeat....
The prison guard got mad:
He put an end to my dialogue.
He said he didn’t like my poetry,
And bolted the door to my cell.
Read More
The prison guard got angry.
He put an end to the dialogue.
He said he didn’t care for poetry,
And bolted the door of my cell.
He came back to see me
In the morning;
He shouted at me:
-Where did all this water come from?
-I brought it from the Nile.
-And the trees?
-From the orchards of Damascus.
-And the music?
-From my heartbeat....
The prison guard got mad:
He put an end to my dialogue.
He said he didn’t like my poetry,
And bolted the door to my cell.
Read More
Lourdes Perez
Palestinian national poet Mahmoud Darwish died yesterday. I once had the opportunity to hear poet Naomi Shihab Nye read the following translation of one of his poems and I never forgot it.
Lourdes Perez
Esperanza Peace & Justice Center is our home theater and cultural center in Texas. For info on 20 years of Esperanza's local and international human rights work, go to: http://www.esperanzacenter.org/
Photos from our last performance in 2007:
http://www.new.facebook.com/photo.php?pi
Lourdes Perez
The soul of Lebanon expressed in music:
May Nasr: http://www.new.facebook.com/pages/May-Na
Ahmed Kaabour: http://www.new.facebook.com/pages/Ahmad-
and
Marcel Khalife: http://www.new.facebook.com/pages/Marcel
Lourdes Perez
Beautiful work by mahader: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mahader/
Lourdes Perez songs, stories, paintings, política and music from around the world
Time:9:00PM Monday, July 21st
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