Luis Nieto Miranda
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Literature
Nieto’s Romance of Sicuani’s Fair
On a plain, where the canyon widens, the old town of Sicuani rises. It claims importance as a regional center…
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Nieto’s Song of the Wild Woman’s Retreat
Luís Nieto, the great poet of Cuzco and the author of the Romancero Cholo, does not just write of the…
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Literature
Nieto’s Reproach in the Air of a Wayno
There is a saying in Cuzco that you hear all the time: “sacar la vuelta”. In simple English it could…
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Commentary
“Cholo Soy” (I am a Cholo) Today
A song riffs from headphones and cafes. It bounces softly, rhythmically, almost hypnotically. Most of its words repeat one phrase…
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Treacherous Chola, a Poem by Luís Nieto Miranda
Luís Nieto MIranda's poem "La Chola Bandida" in translation.
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Charanguito, a Poem by Luís Nieto Miranda
A translation into English of Luis Nieto Miranda's poem Charanguito.
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Cuzco’s Sicuani, Nieto’s Small Fatherland
Though he lived other places, the poet Luís Nieto MIranda´s life was marked by Sicuani, a major provincial city of…
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Wind and Flute Wail in Nieto’s Poem
Luís Nieto Miranda, the great poet of Cuzco, grasped the Andean landscape and people's interactions with it in this poem,…
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Entertainment
On the Edge of a Memory with Cuzco’s Luís Nieto Miranda
Cuzco’s celebrated poet, Luís Nieto Miranda draws on the traditions of romances to create a set of images of life…
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Nieto’s Romance of Song and Sorrow
Unrequited love, what could be more common and more human. Yet it is not the model of the couple dominant…
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