Book record
Amorgos notebook
Elsa Cross
Translated from Spanish by Luis Ingelmo
Elsa Cross’s Amorgos notebook, translated by Luis Ingelmo and Tony Frazer, gives Mexican poetry a Greek island, a notebook form, and a contemplative travel atmosphere. The title suggests poems written from attention rather than conclusion. A notebook lets the fragment remain a fragment. Amorgos brings sea, stone, myth, distance, and the altered perception that travel can sometimes make possible. Cross is a poet of philosophical and spiritual range, and this book likely turns place into a field for meditation. Published by Shearsman Books, it belongs on the shelf as a Mexican work that moves beyond national scenery into trans-Mediterranean attention, where travel becomes a way of listening to consciousness shift.
- Published
- 2018
- Publisher
- Shearsman Books
- Language
- Spanish
- Country
- Mexico
- ISBN
- 9781848614833