<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">I thought I share a Jorge Luis Borges poem, in English, and maybe somebody knows if he wrote them originally in English or not. He was in love with English and England.<br><pre><font><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">What can I hold you with?<br>I offer you lean streets, desperate sunsets, the moon of the ragged<br> suburbs.<br>I offer you the bitterness of a man who has looked long and long<br> at the lonely moon.<br>I offer you my ancestors, my dead men, the ghosts that living<br> men have honoured in marble: my father's father killed in<br> the frontier of Buenos Aires, two bullets through his lungs,<br> bearded and dead, wrapped by his soldiers in the hide of a<br>
cow; my mother's grandfather —just twentyfour— heading<br> a charge of three hundred men in Peru, now ghosts on vanished<br> horses.<br>I offer you whatever insight my books may hold, whatever manliness<br> or humour my life.<br>I offer you the loyalty of a man who has never been loyal.<br>I offer you that kernel of myself that I have saved, somehow<br> —the central heart that deals not in words, traffics not with<br> dreams and is untouched by time, by joy, by adversities.<br>I offer you explanations of yourself, theories about yourself, authentic<br> and surprising news of yourself.<br>I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my<br> heart; I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger,<br> with defeat.</font></font></pre>Here there are more:<br><span><a target="_blank"
href="http://www.chez.com/resmart/classics/southamerica/argentina/borges.htm">http://www.chez.com/resmart/classics/southamerica/argentina/borges.htm</a></span><br><br>Thanks<br>cuca<br><br><br><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">----- Original Message ----<br>From: cwgrad-announcements@lists.ucr.edu<br>To: GRAD STUDENTS <cwgrad-announcements@lists.ucr.edu><br>Sent: Wednesday, September 6, 2006 4:05:34 PM<br>Subject: [Cwgrad-announcements] FW: Submit Now! 2006 Philip Levine Prize in Poetry<br><br><div><br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: Maurya Simon [mailto:maurya.simon@ucr.edu] <br>Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2006 3:54 PM<br>To: Amanda J Labagnara<br>Subject: Fwd: Submit Now! 2006 Philip Levine Prize in Poetry<br><br><br>>Please forward to our grad students. Thanks, M.S.<br><br><br><br>>The Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program at California State<br>>University, Fresno is now
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