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SYMBOLS
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Alberto Guillen
I was throwing out an old suit
and found the moon
in the waistcoat pocket.
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The Chilean poet wrote his haikus - witty, earthy, mystical, realistic - for little publications throughout his life. A thousand of them were gathered together in his Songbook in the last year of his life. This collection features the translation of the first 100 of them.

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