Quito  Nicolaas

Quito Nicolaas has published thirteen books: seven poetry collections, including two with his current publisher ‘In de Knipscheer’, three novels, a collection of short stories and a collection of columns. His short stories and poems appeared in ten different anthologies in the Caribbean and the Netherlands. Also his essays on Caribbean literature were published in a variety of international publications. In 2006, the handbook of literary history of Aruba and the former Netherlands Antilles, dedicated attention to his work. His poems appeared in different anthologies in Albania, Argentina, Chile, Columbia, China, New York and Romania. In Iune 2016, his entire work was included in the prestigious Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American biography from the Oxford University.

Gente

Mira gente
de toda nacionalidad
en una nacion.

Por la mañana
de noche tarde
dos vidas
en una vida.

Distancia largo
Gritos
sin slcance
en el viento.

La decadencia
una isolación
una cultura ...
el materialismo.

Derechos invuelto
un dualismo
entre individuos
sugetado a la medida.

� Quito Nicolaas
[Del tomo:Destino,2000]

Malvinas

En mis sueños
Te veo
Todas las noches

Antes te comtemplaba
En todos los lados de tus ojos
De dia

Alejados de otro
Crece el deseo
En la madrugada

Aunque para un sólo vez
Faltar el compromiso
Una tarde

Te quise
Dos sombras compremitido
La mañana

� Quito Nicolaas
[Del tomo Atarde de Anta�o,2005]

Awareness

I'm afraid
of the words
that harbor
my feelings
to express them.

I'm anxious
of those stories
that hide
my thoughts
to live to tell them.

I'm fearful
in pronouncing
the experience
I embrace
to tell it all.

I doubt
that my dreams
which absorb
my days
to realize them.

I'm aware
of my voice
that gives birth
to my ideas
to fertilize them.

I'm concious
of my feelings
that obsess
my life
to share them.

� Quito Nicolaas
[From:Reasonable Doubts,2002]