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Twenty-five years later, the old man still lived in the fishing village
though he’d vowed at Hemingway’s death never to fish again.
Passing CojÃmar that morning, I saw in my mind’s eye an old photo
of a gaunt Cuban with a watchful look – the cap on his head
reading Capitan – and Hemingway beside him, burly as the Hulk …
Poem, in its entirety, is available in the printed version of the current issue.
Bio:
Marc Plourde was born in Montreal and has been writing and translating poetry for over 50 years. He has worked as a literary translator and as a college English teacher and has published collections of poetry and short stories. He co-translated Gaston Miron’s selected poems, Embers and Earth, with the poet D.G. Jones. His most recent book, Borrowed Days: Poems New and Selected, was published by Cormorant Books in 2016.