Pirueta (Pirouette) is one of my favourite caprichos (capriccios) written by the legendary Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca (1898-1936). It's a playful and sincere ode to eloquence.
Alberico Collina
Pirouette (by Federico Garcia Lorca translated by Jerome Rothenberg)
If the alphabet should die
then everything would die.
Whose words are
wings.
The whole of life
dependent on
four letters.
In the original:
Pirueta (Federico Garcia Lorca)
Si muriera el alfabeto,
moririan todas las cosas.
Las parablas
son las alas.
La vida entera
depende
de cuatro letras.
Alberico Collina
Pirouette (by Federico Garcia Lorca translated by Jerome Rothenberg)
If the alphabet should die
then everything would die.
Whose words are
wings.
The whole of life
dependent on
four letters.
In the original:
Pirueta (Federico Garcia Lorca)
Si muriera el alfabeto,
moririan todas las cosas.
Las parablas
son las alas.
La vida entera
depende
de cuatro letras.
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