In the canon
The Heights of Macchu Picchu (Alturas de Macchu Picchu)
- Form
- Form Poem
- Year
- Year 1945
- Originally in
- Originally in Spanish
- Pages
- Pages 15
A poet climbs among the ruins of an Andean mountain city and calls out past the silent stone to the anonymous laborers buried beneath it, asking them to rise and speak so their forgotten hands can be counted in the poem too.
Rise up and be born with me, brother.
The blurb, the gist, the why of the day and the work itself are in the app. The first button needs it on this device; the second gets it there.