no alcanza el blanco inefable;
From Argentine poet Esteban Echeverría’s epic poem La Cautiva, 1837
When I first saw this particular stanza while visiting Nora Patrich and Roberto Baschetti in Buenos Aires I was blown away. There is no available translation and I would not tackle it here. It is about a white woman who is captured by Mapuche Indians.
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