Amorgos notebook by Elsa Cross and translated by Luis Ingelmo, Tony Frazer

This is poetry from Mexico.

Amorgos notebook by Elsa Cross translated by Luis Ingelmo, Tony Frazer is published by Shearsman Books. This is a Book originally written in Spanish. This was published in 2018.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781848614833E12.

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.

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