Jorgenrique Adoum
Translated from the Spanish by Katherine M. Hedeen and Victor Rodríguez Núñez
after somanyears of maybes perhapses hopefullies
nothing's left but whys nevermores and eithers
now neverly the mostest
now just the shescorpion
alwaysly not been
pure postlove almost inlove shrouded
in the subsoul or the dislife
decemberly ended


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después de añísimos de quizases talveces ojalases
no quedan sino porqués nuncamases y tampocos
ya jamasmente la ísima
ya solo la escorpiona
parasiempremente no sida
el puro postamor casi inamor amortajado
en la subalma o la desvida
diciembremente terminado
from the book PREPOEMS IN POSTSPANISH AND OTHER POEMS / Action Books
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“Beauty Keepsake” is an extraordinary example of Jorgenrique Adoum’s postspanish. The poet refuses to follow rules: the grammatical rules of an imperial language, for instance. This poem is almost completely made up of neologisms, using wordplay and soundplay to guide it. In turn, postspanish gives us as translators the possibility to rework English, to break it down, to rebel against its linguistic constraints, and—through language—to attempt to defy the imperialist, neo-colonialist limitations of it. 
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