Alliance and Condemnation / Alianza y condena by Claudio Rodríguez and translated by Philip Silver

This is poetry from Spain.

Alliance and Condemnation / Alianza y condena by Claudio Rodríguez translated by Philip Silver is published by Swan Isle Press. This is a Book originally written in Spanish. This was published in 2014.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780983322023E12.

Alliance and Condemnation / Alianza y condena, by Claudio Rodríguez and translated from Spanish by Philip Silver, gives English-language readers Claudio Rodríguez’s Spanish lyric tension, pairing alliance and condemnation as if intimacy and judgment had to share the same breath. Published by Swan Isle Press, it should be approached first as a book of encounter rather than as a biographical assignment. The useful question is not what the poems are supposed to mean in a single solved sentence, but what kind of attention they ask the reader to practice. For this library, the entry matters because it keeps Spain in the translated poetry conversation as a living source of image, pressure, and voice.

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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