A Leopard Am I by Pilar Pallares and translated by Carys Evans-Corrales

This is poetry from Spain.

A Leopard Am I by Pilar Pallares translated by Carys Evans-Corrales is published by Small Stations Press. This is a Book originally written in Galician. This was published in 2013.0 and has the ISBN of 9.789543840182E12.

A Leopard Am I, by Pilar Pallares and translated by Carys Evans-Corrales from Galician, brings Galician poetry from Spain into English through animal selfhood, ferocity, and Pilar Pallarés’s refusal to make identity merely declarative or tame. The metadata gives the reader a doorway, but the real value is what happens once the poem begins making its own weather. I would read it for leopard, body, solitude, and the feeling of lyric speech becoming a creature under pressure, not as a fixed lesson about a nation, period, or school. The best entry point is still the poem itself: the line that catches, the image that refuses to explain itself, the feeling that arrives before paraphrase. A Leopard Am I belongs in the translated poetry library because it gives Galician poetry a bodily, feminist, and untamed presence in English.

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