Archive, Literature, Poetry

Hunger

Posted on by Désirée Jung
08
Dec

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Acordava com fome de conhecimento,
numa necessidade insana de tudo saber.

I don’t understand what you are saying.

Se alguém não gostasse dos meus escritos,
logo iria corrigí-los, in a critical voice.

Now I feel much closer to myself
Because I know I don’t understand
O que eles significam.


Poem published in The Voices Project.

Désirée Jung

My name is Désirée Jung and my intention here is to immerse into words. Writing my biography is a bit like witnessing the spectrum of my own gaze – an impossible task, due to its volatile and vulnerable contingency. For that reason, I let the poems speak for myself. I can add that I’m a Brazilian-Canadian artist, lover of beauty and everything (but not-all) that comes from a feminine space.