Two Bilingual Poems – Guillermo Bowie / Visual Poems – Robert Frede Kenter

A hallway in Long Island City (NYC) an image by Robert Frede Kenter

Corridor

¿“Precipitándose”?

                     Stella Lefty

Beber de mí peligro
Un título y completo en más
Anécdota
{Aquí yo me completo con su obligación}

Sí, sí pero ¿beber de mí peligro?
Algo gritado en el curso de español en new york university
Actos de Stella que había entrado desde “europa” al curso
Nos conocimos y salió inmediatamente para nunca regresar

¿Beber de mí peligro?
Que chingada cosa de decir
Obviosamente sabe con quién comunique
Pero ¿beber de mí peligro?br>
Que cosa chingadera
¡Historiográfica!
¿Pero vaya a cumplir con la obligación mía de escribir el “libro impaquetable” entonces?
¿Ud. Sabe entonces Isabel Abad que indolada forma de verguenza me haya causado
      porque Ud. sepa en cuál contexto le haya agarrado en panorámica pictura tanto
como
      bajo cuales nubes de lluvias…

  “Jumpin’ The Gun?”

                     Stella Lefty

Drink From My Disasters
A title and complete with more
Anecdote
{Here I will finish your obligations}

Of course, of course, but Drink From My Disasters
Something shouted in a Spanish course at New York University
Done by Stella who had come from “Europe” to the course
We conversed and she left immediately to never return

Drink From My Disasters
What a f #~*ed thing to say
Obviously you know with whom you are communicating
But Drink From My Disasters?

Son of a #~*
Historiographer!
But then are you going to complete my obligation of writing “the can’t do without book”?
You know then Isabel Abad what level of shame that you caused me because you know
       from which context that you grabbed this panorama of photos as much as from
under
       which clouds of rain…

Nicanor Parra, Where Are You

“Como, A Nuestro Parescer, Cualquiere Tiempo Passado Fue Mejor”

                                                                                                    Jorge Manrique

Nicanor Parra, pero Parra
Cuál es el mensaje
Que guardes en
Su libro publicado en 2001

No pudiera estar diciendo
Que en cierto círculo que le rodea
Que tenga idea de lo que nos haya ocurrido
Un libro con afirmado mensaje en 2001

Nicanor Parra, pero Parra
A mí me parece que sobre todo
Tenga idea sobre lo que nos haya puesto estas circunstancias
El mero reconociendo por la misma avenida seguida de Frederich Nietzsche fuera
          suficiente

Pero es bastante notable en la estructura de su libro
La implicación de que tenga idea en 2001
De los ciertos hechos en cambios de esferas sociales
que hayan interrumpido el camino sociohumano
Es de cierta significancia en la historia sus pasos insenuados en 2001

“As It Appears To Us, Whatever Time That Has Passed Was Better”

                                                                                                    Jorge Manrique

Nicanor Parra, but Parra
What is exactly the
Intended message
Possible in your book of 2001
Could it not be that you are saying
That within particular circumstances in front of you
That you have a certain idea about what has happened to us
A book with a particular place in 2001

Nicanor Parra, but Parra
It looks like to me that most of all
You have an idea about what has presented our circumstances
A particular recognition through the same position of Frederick Nietzsche that you were
          using

But through the structure of your book one finds
Certain implications of your having an idea in 2001
Of certain activities within the sphere of social changes
          that have interrupted our sociohuman existence
These insinuations of 2001 are of a certain significance in history


Guillermo Bowie is a Portland, Oregon-based writer. He is a former student of John B. Hughes at New York University and Juan Marichal at Harvard University. John and Juan were Ph.D graduates at Princeton University where they had been students of Spain’s Philologist Americo Castro. Guillermo Bowie has a B.A. from Lewis and Clark College, studied Spanish completing a M.A. at Columbia University, a second M.A. in Spanish from New York University, studied doctoral Spanish at Harvard University and did 1/2 of a Ph.D. in Spanish at the University of Oregon.
Guillermo Bowie is a former Spanish teacher at the University of Oregon and Curry College, and Spanish tutor at Columbia University and Boston School Of Modern Languages, bilingual second grade teacher at Manhattan’s P.S. 152, second grade teacher in the Bronx and day care instructor at Union Theological Seminary Day Care Center. He also worked for three years as a book salesman at downtown Portland, Oregon’s B Dalton Bookseller and Sherman, Texas’ B Dalton Bookseller.
In 2025 he was published in Maryland Literary Review, Maryland’s Academy Of The Heart And Mind, lodestar lit, New Brunswick, Canada’s Version 9, New Brunswick, Canada’s The Nashwaak Review (2026), United Kingdom’s The Unseen Threads: Let’s Bind Them Together, United Kingdom’s Impspired (2026), Euphemism (2026), forthcoming in Germany’s Sein und Werden, Mobile Data Mag, and Belgium’s Kleksograph. His book in the Chilean tradition “Confieso Que He Vivido” has just been released by The Write Publishers.

Artworks: 1. Corridor, Long Island City. 2. Nicanor Parra, Where Are You. (c) 2026 Robert Frede Kenter. Robert is the curator of Dis/enchantment/Anomie/ Spectacle Series & EIC/Publisher of Ice Floe Press. IG: r.f.k.vispocityshuffle; icefloe22

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