A Poem Goes About on Foot by Joaquín Pasos, translated by Roger Hickin Candlestick Press The poems in Mother Muse

The poems in Mother Muse move boldy and range widely

holds it tighter

Charlotte Eichler

To contain these contradictory impulses and

The language

A Poem Goes About on Foot by Joaquín Pasos, translated by Roger Hickin Candlestick Press The poems in Mother MuseA Poem Goes About on Foot is a bilingual selection of twenty one poems with translations from the Spanish by New Zealand translator Roger Hickin. Joaqun Pasos (191447) was a precocious Nicaraguan poet who by the time he was sixteen was one of the pillars of the experimental Vanguardia group. His work, which ranges from playful lyrics to the apocalyptic masterpiece Canto de guerra de las cosas, appeared in journals at home and abroad, but he never