Ashes in love by Óscar Hahn and translated by James Hoggard

This is poetry from Chile.

Ashes in love by Óscar Hahn translated by James Hoggard is published by Host Publications. This is a Book originally written in Spanish. This was published in 2009.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780924047732E12.

Óscar Hahn’s Ashes in Love, translated by James Hoggard, holds together eros and mortality with a directness that feels both classical and contemporary. Hahn’s poetry often moves through ghosts, desire, death, memory, and the afterlife of the beloved, but he does so with a clarity that keeps the poems from becoming mist. The title is lovely because it lets love remain warm even after destruction. Ashes are what is left, but they are also proof that fire happened. Hoggard’s translation gives the poems a readable lyric surface while preserving their haunted undertow. I would recommend this book to readers who want love poetry that does not pretend love protects us from death. Instead, Hahn lets desire speak from inside impermanence. The result is tender, spectral, and quietly devastating.

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