{"id":388,"date":"2020-12-10T15:22:25","date_gmt":"2020-12-10T20:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/perrone\/?page_id=388"},"modified":"2026-03-19T08:58:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T12:58:53","slug":"antonio-cicero-keeping-trans","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/perrone\/publications\/antonio-cicero-keeping-trans\/","title":{"rendered":"Ant\u00f4nio C\u00edcero: Keeping trans"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<section class=\"fullwidth-text-block\">\r\n\t<div class=\"container px-0 pt-5\">\r\n\t\t<div class=\"row align-items-start\">\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"col-12\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ant\u00f4nio C\u00edcero: Keeping trans<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Keeping&#8221;, trans. of &#8220;Guardar&#8221; by Antonio Cicero, for &#8220;Cam\u00f5es&#8217; Feast&#8221; installation by Regina Vater in Brazilian Visual Poetry exhibition, Mexic-Art Museum, Austin, Tx. Jan. 17-Mar. 18, 2002.Keeping<br>\n(&#8220;Guardar&#8221;1996)<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>Antonio C\u00edcero<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>trans. Charles A. Perrone (2001)<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>Keeping something is not to conceal it or leave it under lock and key.<br>\nNothing at all is meant for keeping in coffers.<br>\nOffers in safes are being lost from sight.<br>\nKeeping something is to look at, after, and up to it,<br>\nto guard and regard it, that is,<br>\nto illuminate it and be illuminated by it.<br>\nKeeping something is to watch over it, that is, to remain vigilant for it,<br>\nthat is, to stay awake for it, that is, to be for its sake before and after.<br>\nThat is why one better keeps the flight of a bird<br>\nThan birds without flights.<br>\nThat is why one writes, one speaks, one publishes,<br>\nThat is why one declares and declaims a poem:<br>\nTo keep it:<br>\nSo that it, in turn, may keep guarding its keepsakes:<br>\nMay keep whatever a poem keeps:<br>\nThat is the deal with poems:<br>\nThat keeping whatever wants keeping<\/p>\n\n\n\r\n\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/section>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1075,"featured_media":0,"parent":19,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"featured_post":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-388","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/perrone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/perrone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/perrone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/perrone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1075"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/perrone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/perrone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":602,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/perrone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/388\/revisions\/602"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/perrone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/perrone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}