And We Were All Alive by Olvido García Valdés and translated by Catherine Hammond

This is poetry from Spain.

And We Were All Alive by Olvido García Valdés translated by Catherine Hammond is published by Cardboard House Press. This is a Book originally written in Spanish. This was published in 2016.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780990660187E12.

And We Were All Alive, by Olvido García Valdés, is a Spanish poetry collection from Spain, translated by Catherine Hammond, published by Cardboard House Press in 2016. It is a Spanish collection by Olvido García Valdés that holds aliveness as perception, fragility, and declaration. The title has the force of astonishment after difficulty, as though survival itself were a sentence the poem had to test. I would not approach it as a book that needs to be solved or reduced to context before it can begin working. Start with the pressure of the title, the texture of the translated line, and the feeling of a voice making room for itself in English. For this library, the book matters as more than a record of Spain; it is an invitation to let poetry remain particular, difficult, and alive without asking it to behave like explanation.

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.

Check out more of the always in-progress translated poetry index here.