The Works of Mexican Writer José Emilio Pacheco available at The Vancouver Public Library
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José Emilio Pacheco was a former profesor at The University of British Columbia UBC´s Hispanic and Italian studies department in Vancouver in 1968. Read this interesting article about it Here.
The following are some of his works available at the Vancouver Public Library:
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| Las batallas en el desierto | Vancouver Public Library | BiblioCommons |
Battles in the Desert & Other Stories | Vancouver Public Library | BiblioCommons
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| Selected Poems | Vancouver Public Library | BiblioCommons |
City of Memory and Other Poems | Vancouver Public Library | BiblioCommons
An Ark for the next Millennium | Vancouver Public Library | BiblioCommons
Don't Ask Me How the Time Goes by | Vancouver Public Library | BiblioCommons
Fondo de Cultura Económica has also available José Emilio Pacheco works.
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Detalle del libro LAS BATALLAS EN EL DESIERTO EDICION CONMEMORATIVA A TREINTA AÑOS DE LA PRIMERA PUBLICACIONFOTOGRAFIAS DE NACHO LOPEZ
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The Georgia Strait
José Emilio Pacheco, Vancouver, B.C. 1968
The forest facing the sea
An eagle high up
on the top of a conifer
It was dusk
On Vancouver Island
the sun sank
Perhaps it was the Aztlán of the Mexicans
From there seven tribes set out
and one
founded the Aztec empire
Of Aztlán only certain names remain
planted along the coast
like stones
The eagle was discovered in the bush
not heraldic
not blazing
with light in the dusk
Decomposing
It preyed on fish
poisoned by pesticide garbage
industrial waste
Eagles no longer cruise over Vancouver
Today the people
watch leviathans of iron on the beach
The Aztecs believed that night
upon night the Sun God
died into the form of an eagle
and journeyd trough the Land of the Dead
to reascend the second day
(fortified with human blood)
like a jaguar into the center of the sky
The Vancouver Indians live
on the Musqueam Reserve
donde el Fraser entrega el agua dulce
de la montaña al mar
que abre las alas
El Estrecho de Georgia une y separa
de tierra firme a Aztlán
el paraíso azteca que está muerto
como Tenochtitlán
la ciudad del ombligo de la luna
En The Musqueam Reserve
hay tres campos de glof
Los antiguos señores de la tierra
cargan los utensilios deportivos
de los monstruos marinoa
El águila desciende
y el jaguar
¿ha bebido la sangre de la noche?
