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A cruise to the Galapagos Islands
Antonio Cisneros
Translated from Spanish by William Rowe
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.
- Published
- 2013
- Publisher
- Shearsman Books
- Language
- Spanish
- Country
- Peru
- ISBN
- 9781848612693