Name: "GaSouht" (Sadness) by Words Without Borders
Duration: 4 min 31 s
Description: Rap artist praCh and poet U Sam Ouer trade stanzas and stories about the sorrows of the Khmer Rouge time.

"NGUXTAPAX, YOXI, AND THE FIVE COUNTRIES," read by José Fernandez Muratu.

Recording by the Project for the Investigation, Preservation, and Diffusion of the Cultural Heritage of the Tikuna People. Ministry of Culture of Peru. Recorded by Paula Letts, researcher for the Department of Cultural Heritage. 2013.

5 Países Yoí Ipi Ngutap - Tikuna Storytelling - José Fernandez Muratú

Rap artist praCh and poet U Sam Ouer trade stanzas and stories about the sorrows of the Khmer Rouge time.

"GaSouht" (Sadness)

Listen to Bernard Capinpin read his translation of Filipino poet Enrique Villasis's "Birds in Flight,” one of four winning selections in the Words Without Borders—Academy of American Poets Poems in Translation Contest chosen by Pushcart Prize winner David Tomas Martinez.

Poems in Translation Contest: "Birds in Flight, 1965," by Enrique Villasis, tr. Bernard Capinpin

Words Without Borders expands cultural understanding through the translation, publication, and promotion of vital international voices in literature.

"GaSouht" (Sadness)

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