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As though the wound had heard
Mara Pastor
Translated from Spanish by María José Giménez
As Though the Wound Had Heard arrives in this batch as a Puerto Rico entry translated from Spanish by Maria Jose Gimenez, and its title already opens a useful path into the book. I read it through Mara Pastor’s Puerto Rican lyric wound, where hearing itself becomes a form of contact with pain, memory, and survival. That does not mean the book needs to be solved through those three ideas, only that they give a reader somewhere to stand before the language begins moving. What I want from a description here is permission: start with the image, the rhythm, the odd pressure of a phrase. Published by Cardboard House Press, the book widens the library’s sense of what contemporary and modern Spanish-language literature can hold.
- Published
- 2017
- Publisher
- Cardboard House Press
- Language
- Spanish
- Country
- Puerto Rico
- ISBN
- 9781945720086