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标题：Instant.
作者：Morejon, Nancy
期刊名称：World Literature Today
印刷版ISSN：0196-3570
出版年度：2005
期号：May
语种：English
出版社：University of Oklahoma

摘要：

 INSTANT   Yesterday, mathematics eluded her,  but she read with delight a history of Africa  where they recounted facts  about slave trade and galleons.  Today he rounded up nine guys to play baseball  and donated blood at the county clinic.  She ran around the entire track,  and he shopped for tasty mussels  at the market.  He dreamed about Indian girls, all washing at the riverbank.  She went to the refrigerator  and, with a nearly forbidden pleasure,  devoured the mussels he'd managed to buy  at the market.  It is four-ten in the afternoon.  Both gaze into the same lens  and share the same hope.  Havana  Translations from the Spanish By Pamela Carmell & David Frye

Instant.

Morejon, Nancy

INSTANT

 Yesterday, mathematics eluded her,
 but she read with delight a history of Africa
 where they recounted facts
 about slave trade and galleons.
 Today he rounded up nine guys to play baseball
 and donated blood at the county clinic.
 She ran around the entire track,
 and he shopped for tasty mussels
 at the market.
 He dreamed about Indian girls, all washing at the riverbank.
 She went to the refrigerator
 and, with a nearly forbidden pleasure,
 devoured the mussels he'd managed to buy
 at the market.
 It is four-ten in the afternoon.
 Both gaze into the same lens
 and share the same hope.

Havana

Translations from the Spanish
By Pamela Carmell & David Frye

Editorial note: From With Eyes and Soul: Images of Cuba, ed. Dennis Maloney, photographs by Milton Rogovin. Copyright [c] 2004 by White Pine Press, Buffalo, New York (www.whitepine.org). Reprinted by arrangement with the publisher.

* Editorial note: Bodoni is a typeface; a reglet is a flat piece of wood used to separate lines of type.

NANCY MOREJON (b. 1944) is director of the Center for Caribbean Studies at the Casa de las Americas in Havana, a member of the Academia Cubana de la Lengua, and an advisor for the Teatro Nacional de Cuba. One of the foremost Cuban writers and intellectuals of her generation, her publications include several books of poetry and theater as well as critical studies of Cuban history and literature. In 2001 she won Cuba's Premio de la Critica for her verse collection La quinta de los molinos, and in 2002 she helped honor Roberto Fernandez Retamar as the fellow of the Puterbaugh Conference on World Literature at the University of Oklahoma (see WLT, Summer-Autumn 2002, 27, 52-53).