[Newspoetry] Translated Sonnet

[gillespie william k]

I'm helping translate some poems written in Spanish by leftist poets who
lived in Chile during Pinochet's rule. Here's the first one we finished.

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To a Santiago Laundrywoman
by Oscar Hahn

translated by William Gillespie, Maria Isabel Silva, and Eva Wyman

My cousin, who always lived by her washtub
Passed away suddenly, her life stifled
They cracked her skull with one blow from a club:
The butt of a soldier's rifle