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Claribel Alegría

I’ve been a very close friend of Gelman for many years and I admire him greatly.  I am sending you a very short poem that I dedicated to him many years ago, when he was looking for the remnants of his dead son.

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                   to Juan Gelman

Because I learned to love myself
I bleed
with your wounds

          — tr. Paul Pines