Search Results for: adriana dĂ­az

Come From Nothingness

Come From Nothingness

Adriana DĂ­az Enciso
A limpidity of light, already there before your eyes are opened. Lucidity not an attribute, but substance. Something that is—unnameable, ungraspable, and what it is is reality. The revealed and…
The End of Certain Worlds

The End of Certain Worlds
Fin de ciertos mundos

Adriana DĂ­az Enciso
The morning after (London time) Israel’s attacks against nuclear, military and, in passing, civilian targets in Iran, I came across Patti Smith’s latest message in Substack. She looked tired and…
Excerpt from So Great Is the Light

Excerpt from So Great Is the Light

Adriana DĂ­az Enciso
To say that dusk had descended would be inexact. It rather seemed to be seeping from the corners of the meadow, a crawling, not gathering thing that went undetected for…
Return

Return
El regreso

Adriana DĂ­az Enciso
Return, by Adriana DĂ­az Enciso *** Among the avalanche of images and words that testify to a world racked by violence, uncertainty, multiple forms of madness and all the imaginable…
Dark October

Dark October
Oscuro octubre

Adriana DĂ­az Enciso
October started badly for an afflicted Mexico, as Claudia Sheinbaum was sworn in as president on the first day of the month. We were just having some respite, thinking that,…
Everything I will not read

Everything I will not read
Lo que no leeré

Adriana DĂ­az Enciso
For some months now, I’ve been feeling a certain urgency to read again Thomas Mann’s Doctor Faustus. It would be the third time. Some fifteen years elapsed between my first…
El reino unido

El reino unido

Adriana DĂ­az Enciso
Las elecciones en cualquier paĂ­s y las campañas que les preceden, como hemos tenido oportunidad de observar ampliamente en los Ăşltimos meses, son trances contradictorios de la vida pĂşblica colmados…