23 de January

Friday

6 Born on this day 10 Died on this day
Poem of the day

Grass

Carl Sandburg
Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo.
Shovel them under and let me work
-I am the grass; I cover all.

And pile them high at Gettysburg
And pile them high at Ypres and Verdun.
Shovel them under and let me work.
Two years, ten years, and the passengers ask the conductor:

What place is this?
Where are we now?

I am the grass.
Let me work.
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Born on this day

6

Died on this day

10
Nicanor Parra

Nicanor Parra

8 years since death · 2018

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Northrop Frye

Northrop Frye

35 years since death · 1991

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Mário Saa

Mário Saa

55 years since death · 1971

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Alberto de Monsaraz

Alberto de Monsaraz

67 years since death · 1959

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Norman MacCaig

Norman MacCaig

30 years since death · 1996

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Ismael Enrique Arciniegas

Ismael Enrique Arciniegas

88 years since death · 1938

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Max Henríquez Ureña

Max Henríquez Ureña

58 years since death · 1968

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Francisco Cervantes

Francisco Cervantes

21 years since death · 2005

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Giambattista Vico

Giambattista Vico

282 years since death · 1744

Ryszard Kapuściński

Ryszard Kapuściński

19 years since death · 2007