Maria Paris Borda
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composición de lugar overture (i-v) overture the ground is shifting intermezzo concave figs - part i figs - part ii a measure of distance peaches and cream reading to the window 00:00 to 00:04 may it be a polar day attempt pressIntermezzo is a concrete poem reflecting on transformation and the process of translation. Through punctuation blank spaces, and italics, Intermezzo oscillates between Spanish and English, emulating the moment when one tongue becomes another.
The poem was first commissioned by rhe literary journal De Gids, for their issue on Multilingualism. It was later transformed into a performative reading accompanied with a soundscape developed in collaboration with Constanza Castagnet and exhibited as in de Brakke Grond, Amsterdam.
