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Nationality:
El Salvador
Gilberto Gonzalez y Contreas - Radiograms
In a mirrored dawn
the bridge is combing
the river’s hair.
Gilberto Gonzalez y Contreras was in exile from his homeland El Salvador following the events of 1932 when he published these haikus. Writing in safety from Havana, the poems are a very strange mixture of romance, political fervour, and a longing for home: the poems match his transition from flaneur and government censor to critic and activist.
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