[Cwgrad-announcements] Jorge Luis Borges

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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.
What can I hold you with?
I offer you lean streets, desperate sunsets, the moon of the ragged
        suburbs.
I offer you the bitterness of a man who has looked long and long
        at the lonely moon.
I offer you my ancestors, my dead men, the ghosts that living
        men have honoured in marble: my father's father killed in
        the frontier of Buenos Aires, two bullets through his lungs,
        bearded and dead, wrapped by his soldiers in the hide of a
        cow; my mother's grandfather —just twentyfour— heading
        a charge of three hundred men in Peru, now ghosts on vanished
        horses.
I offer you whatever insight my books may hold, whatever manliness
        or humour my life.
I offer you the loyalty of a man who has never been loyal.
I offer you that kernel of myself that I have saved, somehow
        —the central heart that deals not in words, traffics not with
        dreams and is untouched by time, by joy, by adversities.
I offer you explanations of yourself, theories about yourself, authentic
        and surprising news of yourself.
I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my
        heart; I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger,
        with defeat.Here there are more:
http://www.chez.com/resmart/classics/southamerica/argentina/borges.htm

Thanks
cuca



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From: Maurya Simon [mailto:maurya.simon at ucr.edu] 
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Subject: Fwd: Submit Now! 2006 Philip Levine Prize in Poetry


>Please forward to our grad students.  Thanks, M.S.



>The Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program at California State
>University, Fresno is now accepting submissions for the 2006 Philip Levine
>Prize in Poetry (see attached flyer).
>
>
>Submission Period: August and September 2006
>
>Postmark Deadline: 9/30/06 - Entry fee $25
>
>
>2006 Competition Guidelines:
>€ Manuscript should be original poetry, not previously published in book
>form, and should be 48-80 pages.
>€ Include two manuscript title pages: one with name and contact information
>and one with the name of the manuscript ONLY. Manuscripts will be screened
>and judged anonymously.
>€ All poets are eligible except current or former faculty or students of
>California State University, Fresno.
>€ The entry fee is $25. Checks should be made out to "CSU Fresno Levine
>Prize."
>€ Please bind your manuscript with a binder clip only and mail by 9/30/06
>(postmark deadline), to: Philip Levine Prize in Poetry, CSUF English
>Department, 5425 N. Backer Ave. MS PB98, Fresno, CA 93740-8001. Email
>LevinePrize at listserv.csufresno.edu for more information.
>
>
>Final judge for the 2006 competition: Corrinne Clegg Hales
>
>Corrinne Clegg Hales is the author of four poetry collections, most
recently
>Separate Escapes, winner of the Richard Snyder Poetry Prize (Ashland Poetry
>Press, 2002). Her previous books are Out of This Place (March Street Press,
>2001), January Fire (Devil¹s Millhopper Press), and Underground (Ahsahta
>Press). Her poems have appeared in Hudson Review, Ploughshares, Kenyon
>Review, Prairie Schooner, Southern Review, and many other journals. She has
>received two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and won
>first place in the River Styx Poetry Prize competition for 2000.
>

Maurya Simon

Professor
Department of Creative Writing
University of California Riverside
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