Eunice Odio
from Territorio del Alba
One
Canciones para cantarse bajo el Sol
Petite Symphony
(The Bitter Oleander, Spring 2003)
Lin Lan, Sang the Lark
(The Bitter Oleander, Spring 2003)
Heart with Park
and Children
(The Bitter Oleander, Spring 2003)
Three Songs of Solitude
(The Bitter Oleander, Spring 2003)
Two
Tras un ángel que bajó a la mañana
If I Could Open My Heavy Flower
To Natalia, the Daughter of the Painter Granell
Recepción a un Amigo a su Llegada
a Panamá
Reception for a Friend on his
Arrival in Panama
(Perihelion, Winter
2003)
Declinaciones del Monólogo
Declensions of a Monologue
(Perihelion, Winter
2003)
Los Elementos Terrestres
First Poem, Dream Possession
(Asheville Poetry
Review, Summer 2003)
Second Poem, Absence of Love
Third Poem, Consummation
Fourth Poem, Song of the Husband to
His Love
Fifth Poem, Sterility
Sixth Poem, Creation
Seventh Poem, Germination
Eighth Poem
from Pastos de Sueños
La Dama de Bronce
The Bronze Lady
(International Poetry
Review, forthcoming)
from El Tránsito de Fuego
Integración
de los Padres
Integration
of the Parents
Infancia
de los Padres, II
Infancy
of the Parents, Part II
from Poemas Dispersos
Nube y Cielo Mayor
Cloud and
Greater Sky
Links to Eunice Odio on the web:
Article from La Nación (about a bust of Odio commissioned for the Costa Rican National Theater)
Eunice Odio poems copyright Editorial de la Universidad de Costa Rica, 1996
Translations copyright 2003, Keith Ekiss, Sonia P. Ticas, and Mauricio Espinoza