5 meters of poems5 metros de poemas by Carlos Oquendo de Amat and translated by Alejando de Acosta

This is poetry from Peru.

5 meters of poems5 metros de poemas by Carlos Oquendo de Amat translated by Alejando de Acosta is published by Ugly Duckling Presse. This is a Book originally written in Spanish. This was published in 2010.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781933254593E12.

Carlos Oquendo de Amat’s 5 meters of poems / 5 metros de poemas, translated by Alejandro de Acosta, is a landmark of Peruvian avant-garde imagination and one of those books whose physical idea is inseparable from its poetry. The title is not metaphor alone. It suggests measure, unfolding, extension, poem as object and performance. Ugly Duckling Presse is exactly the kind of home where such a work can be treated not merely as a recovered artifact, but as a living experiment in how a book can move. De Acosta’s translation opens that formal play to English-language readers while preserving the work’s sense of speed and invention. I would read it as cinema, street, architecture, and lyric all at once, a little machine for changing how a page behaves.

If you’d like to see international poetry continue and gain traction, consider requesting this work from your local library, or purchasing it from places like Open Books (a poetry only bookstore), Asterism Books (an independent press distributor), or bookshop.org to connect you with your local bookstores.

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