The Wind, One Brilliant Day — Ben Rivers [Locarno ’26 Review]

In his most recent short The Wind, One Brilliant Day, Ben Rivers takes on a poem-in-translation by the Spanish modernismo writer Antonio Machado, né Antonio Cipriano José María y Francisco de Santa Ana Machado y Ruiz. Apart from an enumerative suggestion (« VI »), Machado left the poem, like the others in his collection Soledades. Galerías. Otros poemas (1907), without a title, which already marks one of the differences between Rivers’ adaptation and his text of departure. Or it would,...