What amazes me about the night is when I awake from its deceit and realise how your face resists forgetting.
Álvaro Fausto Taruma
Where these words come from
- 95% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- Father — translated from Portuguese by Grant Azevedo Beleza-Schutzman; Complete final20-word sentence. Full poem and translator commentary read in Modern Poetry in Translation. Eulogy for a father, whose remembered face survives waking from a dream. Translator explicitly credited; no machine transla
- Father — translated from Portuguese by Grant Azevedo Beleza-Schutzman
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