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Nationality:
Mexico
Francisco Monterde - Contemplative Itinerary
A flight of pigeons
flutter their handkerchiefs
as the locomotive departs.
Francisco Monterde’s Contemplative Itinerary makes use of haikus to narrate a journey he took by railway from Mexico City to Veracruz in 1923. As the title suggests, it is by turns observational and reflective in the tradition of Basho’s Narrow Road to the North. (First English translation)
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