A little body are many parts by Legna Rodríguez Iglesias and translated by Serafina Vick, Abigail Parry

This is poetry from Cuba.

A little body are many parts by Legna Rodríguez Iglesias translated by Serafina Vick, Abigail Parry is published by Bloodaxe Books. This is a Book originally written in Spanish. This was published in 2019.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781780374963E12.

A little body are many parts, by Legna Rodríguez Iglesias, is a Spanish poetry collection from Cuba, translated by Serafina Vick, Abigail Parry, published by Bloodaxe Books in 2019. It is a Cuban collection whose grammar already announces fracture, play, and bodily multiplicity. Rodríguez Iglesias writes as though the body were never singular, but crowded with voices, histories, jokes, injuries, and unruly little rooms. I would not approach it as a book that needs to be solved before it can begin working. Start with the title, the pressure of the translated line, and the feeling of a voice making room for itself in English. The value here is not just metadata or representation. It is the chance to let a particular book create its own weather, its own difficulty, and its own way of asking the reader to listen.

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