first tell us a little bit about juan gelman the poet.account for his prominence in the spanish speaking world. what was his poetry like? >> juan gelman belonged to a tradition in latin american poetry that connected the people with the word, the spoken word, the written word, the tradition best represented by pablo-- in his case juan gelman's case he understood that the role of poetry was to speak truth to power. and throughout the dirty war, he took very seriously the role that as a poet he needed to bear witness to the situation that the country was going through and to allow his poetry to last beyond the daily massacres, the disappearances that were taking place. he was very shrewd. he knew that a poem is more powerful, ultimately than a gun or a hand grenade in that a poem can change people's minds and that is what his poetry ended up doing. >> and the themes that he addressed went to that? or i saw in one the end of one poem that you translated called end, poetry is a way of living. look at the people at your side. do they eat, suff