DUKE UNIVERSITY (bridge between East and West campuses)
Durham, North Carolina, March 24, 2002

For the fifth and sixth installments of P.P.P., Courtney Baker, Virginia Tuma, Desirée Martín, and Amy Carroll painted two poems facing each other on the bridge between Duke's East and West campuses while hundreds of participants in the Triangle's annual CROP walk served as their readers/audience. These works both interrupted other "texts" on the bridge and operated in conversation with each other. In addition, each was meant to be an exercise in brevity which nevertheless would speak to questions of memory. The first poem draws inspiration from Toni Morrison's Beloved (1987), the second from Elena Garro's Los recuerdos del porvenir (1963). Memorable moments in the process included several questions concerning translation directed at the public poets from both Spanish and English speakers.

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RESPITE, Los recuerdos--
REQUITE, EL ÁNIMO
NOT QUITE (del porvenir)
rememory. ADENTRO
DE MÍ.