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South Pole / Polo Sur is a bilingual journey in poems--from the mountains of Colombia, down the Amazon River and ultimately to the South Pole--by the accomplished Venezuelan poet María Teresa Ogliastri.

I learned to sail with the Indians
who traded me for a cartload of wood
for my skill in the water and the psyche

I lived with the anopheles
its proboscis
the malaria and the visions

and saw my life from afar
always searching for her, my brief mother

in that lost world
allowing sorrow was forbidden

--from “Legacy of Anopheles” by María Teresa Ogliastri
translated from the Spanish by
Yvette Neisser Moreno and Patricia Bejarano Fisher

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