The Heights of Macchu Picchu
Twelve sections climb out of a deadened modern life, in which men die a little each day by small deaths, up through cloud to a city of terraces and dressed stone abandoned on a ridge above the Urubamba. The poet counts what the ruin does not record, the stonecutter, the water carrier, the man whose hands wore down the steps, and asks the dead to speak through his mouth. Long read as the founding poem of a Latin American verse claiming the pre-Columbian past.
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- contained in ↑ Canto General
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