Lourdes Perez

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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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Lourdes Perez

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 the 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.

August 10, 2008 at 4:53pm · Report
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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.

August 10, 2008 at 4:52pm · Report
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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.

August 10, 2008 at 4:51pm · Report
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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?pid=3642492&id=555555642

July 27, 2008 at 3:24pm · Report
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July 24, 2008 at 3:06am · Report
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