Untitled - Azam Abidov - poet and translator

BLANCA ANDERSON
Blanca Anderson, from Puerto Rico, lives in the city of New
Orleans, LA (USA) and teaches Spanish American Literature at
Loyola University New Orleans. She has published two collections
of poems, Ecos arañados (Madrid 1996) and Poemas de amor y de
alquimia (New Jersey, 2003), and her poetry has been included in
anthologies in Mexico and Spain. In 2003 she published a novel, La
edad del arrepentimiento. She is also the author of three collections
of short stories, Cuando los heraldos piden tregua (Madrid, 1996),
La última noche (Madrid, 2006) and Entre la magia y el conjuro
(Costa Rica 2009).
Premonición
El pájaro antes luminoso
cayó de entre las ramas
de un sueño oscuro
a mis brazos donde yacía
muriendo.
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