I think silences are good But for how long these silences?
Enough of silences Let the orchestra come!
Let the grave, roaring and melancholic flame of the great storm come!
And the sweet street ballad And the noise of people and cars And the entire guitar of my breast made to resonate by the hurricane Let life come with its peaks and troughs Let the seas and winds come and the rains and desolation and the dust of the roads and the fatal mists of solitude Let mad fortune come wearing a Phrygian bonnet to know we are alive!
Gustavo Pereira This is the title poem of The Arrival of the Orchestra, a bilingual collection of poems by Gustavo Pereira, translated by John Green, Michael Boncza and Eduardo Embry (Smokestack Books 2010). The author was unable to attend the book’s recent launch at the Bolivar Hall in London as he was busy with the Venezuelan elections. His poems were read in Spanish by the Venezuelan ambassador H.E. Samuel Moncada and in English translation by the publisher Andy Croft.
This is the title poem of The Arrival of the Orchestra, a bilingual collection of poems by Gustavo Pereira, translated by John Green, Michael Boncza and Eduardo Embry (Smokestack Books 2010).