Autor: gerardorodriguezsalas

‘Leslie’ is a poem published in the volume Katherine Mansfield and Bliss and Other Stories, edited by Enda Duffy, Gerry Kimber and Todd Martin (Edinburgh University Press, 2020, p. 156; Katherine Mansfield Studies series. ISBN: 978-1-4744-7730-7).

The inspiration for this poem comes from Katherine Mansfield’s letters and journal. Her brother Leslie died by accident during a grenade training drill in Belgium (October 1915). The poem is the author’s collaborative translation with Lizzie Davis and Carmel Bird of the poem with the same title published originally in Spanish by Gerardo Rodríguez-Salas in his work Anacronía (Valparaíso ediciones, 2020).