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To You, Lord God, we call out
With cries and with clamoring
For we are most distressed.
See how we lose hope
If no one comes to our rescue.
You protect lost children,
The helpless orphans,
The…
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Wife of Shimon Soave, Leonor de Carvajal
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1589–1596
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Mathias Goeritz
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1959
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Saul Borisov
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Mexico City, Mexico
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1960–1969
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Dear reader, take out a sheet of paper and a pen and follow my calculations. This measure will not be pointless, as the numbers we will be dealing with are rather enormous, and mistakes can be easily…
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Isidoro Epstein
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Mexico City, Restored Republic (Mexico)
(Mexico City, Mexico)
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1875
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O most high and sovereign Creator of heaven and earth, not one of Your countless creatures can resist Your will. Without it neither men nor birds nor brutish beasts could live upon the earth. Unless…
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Luis de Carvajal
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(Nuevo León, Mexico)
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1596
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Every night I kneel down by the window and look at a bright star that just might be my guardian angel. Then I recite “Our Father” to God and say a “Hail Mary” for the Virgin. I hope that…
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Rosa Nissán
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Mexico City, Mexico
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1992
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I was going to publish this novel under another name.
If I sought to hide its true father, it was not because I was ashamed of the son, but because books with my name on them…
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Ariel Dorfman
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1981
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Rabbi Eleazar opened the palm of his hand
and let the fertile, virgin earth escape
He took pure water from the mountain spring
recited the two hundred and twenty-one alphabetical combinations
and…
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Angelina Muñiz-Huberman
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Mexico City, Mexico
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1992
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inasmuch as men and women / in their infinite goodness /
believe in God / is it possible that God /
in his infinite goodness / believes in men and women
believes in me / right now / when my heart is…
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Juan Gelman
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Berkeley, United States of America
(Mexico City, Mexico)
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1993