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36. Notes for a Legend
(Meléndez, Mario)
978-1-951370-08-4
Notes for a Legend (Mario Meléndez, Linares, Chile, 1971) is one of the most original voices of his generation. His poetry springs forth from great masters the likes of Vicente Huidobro and Julio Cortázar, but from there his sense of humor and of the macabre take over. One must-read poem is “My cat wants to be a poet.”: At a book signing, “I recognized him immediately/by his big whiskers and hairy tale/ but I said nothing.” The book ends with “The Last Supper” which is nothing like what the reader expects. Do not pass this book up.
Author Mario Meléndez
Translation Rod Hudson
ISBN 978-1-951370-08-4
Pages 91
Format Paperback
In stock
SCARS OF WAR
At times
when I get drunk
words take me home
on an old wooden tricycle
And far from removing my shoes
and putting me to bed
as would normally happen in these cases
they leave me sprawled in the garden
covered with ants
and with my face stuck to
the garden lamp
“That’s what you get for writing bad poems”
they tell me
and go off singing and laughing
hugging
my last beer