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  El pujante sello estadounidense Nueva York Poetry Press puso en circulación, recientemente, la edición en español de este texto dramático, obra de dos destacados autores de reconocida trayectoria literaria en el país del Norte.   A una de las variadas colecciones que estructuran el sólido catálogo de la celebrada casa editora neoyorquina, se sumó  La soñadora y el agente  (1), dramaturgia que, apelando a solo dos personajes, Max y Aurora, es capaz de proyectar sobre la imaginación del lector un completo universo de sentidos, prácticamente omniabarcativo. Ciertamente, la obra es un texto de largo y muy sostenido aliento, donde los  dramatis personae  juegan un difícil papel, bien logrado por ambos autores en los dos planos de la diégesis: el “real ficcional”, donde dialoga el dúo y aquel evocado del trasporte onírico, sin que se confundan en ningún momento ambos campos. Relato dentro del relato, la  mise en abyme  que operan Aurora, la soñadora, ...

Three poets on their way Each to a different dentist On the same day Must be a poem there somewhere Where are they going on this day? To the dentist, All three. Poets they… tooth and nail,         Diente por diente They open their mouths  but can not speak  Will it be pain or relief? Drilling, drilling We all open our mouths  Hope for the best No tooth pulling We can smile again

 Chaynas machunanay kaspa Myrna Nieves y Robert Roth Visits, phone calls, emails, texts to  the eye doctor, throat doctor, heart doctor, primary care doctor, asthma doctor, skin doctor, foot doctor, gout doctor, nutritionist, physical therapist, billing department, right lower back doctor, nose-throat-ear doctor, vascular surgery doctor, Irritable Bowel Syndrome doctor, dentist, dental surgeon, root canal specialist, gastroenterologist (digestive diseases doctor), rheumatologist. Book trips with Access-a-Ride, talk to Medicare, and talk to  other medical and prescription medications insurance plans. Buy: a walker, a cane, knee brace, heel brace, shoulder brace, elbow brace, back brace, heating pad, hearing aids, shoe insoles, shoe pads, and toe separators.

Photo credit: Josué Guarionex Myrna and Robert in the garden of St. Mark's Church-in-the Bowery. They are sitting on a bench dedicated to the memory of Shulamith Firestone.   Robert Roth   The Biographer   Immersed in the pain,  The greatness of our long dead friend Her biographer keeps searching Dusty old boxes in her brother's attic TV footage now on YouTube Articles and books read then reread And then there are those of us that knew her   “Yes I remember that time when...” “That's not what happened...” “In the middle of the night we had to go find  a typewriter ribbon...” “She sat with me all night when my mother died” “You could hear a pin drop whenever she spoke” “Don't believe those others; I knew her best” “She looked so forlorn standing by that lamppost...”   Time, memory, death All us original sources keep dying One more died  just last week       Myrna Nieves   Glimpses: In response to Robert Roth's  po...