A cruise to the Galapagos Islands by Antonio Cisneros and translated by William Rowe

This is poetry from Peru.

A cruise to the Galapagos Islands by Antonio Cisneros translated by William Rowe is published by Shearsman Books. This is a Book originally written in Spanish. This was published in 2013.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781848612693E12.

A cruise to the Galapagos Islands arrives in this batch as a Peru entry translated from Spanish by William Rowe, and its title already opens a useful path into the book. I read it through Antonio Cisneros’s wry Peruvian lyric travel, where place and observation keep swerving into history, irony, and moral weather. That does not mean the book needs to be solved through those three ideas, only that they give a reader somewhere to stand before the language begins moving. What I want from a description here is permission: start with the image, the rhythm, the odd pressure of a phrase. Published by Shearsman Books, the book widens the library’s sense of what contemporary and modern Spanish-language literature can hold.

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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