Before a Mirror, the City by Nancy Morejón and translated by Juanmaria Cordones-Cook, David Frye

This is poetry from Cuba.

Before a Mirror, the City by Nancy Morejón translated by Juanmaria Cordones-Cook, David Frye is published by White Pine Press. This is a Book originally written in Spanish. This was published in 2020.0 and has the ISBN of 9.78194568038E12.

Before a Mirror, the City, by Nancy Morejón, is a Spanish poetry collection from Cuba, translated by Juanmaria Cordones-Cook, David Frye, published by White Pine Press in 2020. It is a Cuban collection by Nancy Morejón where city, history, race, and reflection enter the same field of vision. The mirror in the title feels important: these poems look outward and inward at once, asking who is allowed to appear clearly. 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 Cuba; 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.

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