Alma venus by Pere Gimferrer and translated by Adrian West

This is poetry from Spain.

Alma venus by Pere Gimferrer translated by Adrian West is published by Antilever Press. This is a Book originally written in Spanish. This was published in 2014.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781938308086E12.

There is a strong literary gravity around Alma venus, Pere Gimferrer’s Spanish-language work translated by Adrian West. The book’s center of force is Pere Gimferrer’s ornate Spanish lyric imagination, where Venus, art, desire, and cultivated excess move with deliberate intensity, but I would not want to reduce it to theme alone. Poetry like this is often most alive where it refuses to behave as explanation. It lets place, body, history, and sound touch in ways that prose summary can only approximate. As a translated entry from Spain, it gives the shelf another angle of approach: not simply what happened there, but how a voice from there can remake English.

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