Between Fish Scales by Leire Bilbao and translated by Joana Urtasun

This is poetry from Spain.

Between Fish Scales by Leire Bilbao translated by Joana Urtasun is published by World Poetry Books. This is a Book originally written in Basque. This was published in 2026.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781954218475E12.

Between Fish Scales, by Leire Bilbao, is a Basque poetry collection from Spain, translated by Joana Urtasun, published by World Poetry Books in 2026. It is a Basque collection with aquatic shimmer and tactile strangeness, where the body seems to pass through water, texture, and memory. Rather than forcing the poems into a clean thesis, I would let the book remain somewhat unruly. Translation is useful exactly there, where the English line carries both arrival and residue. What matters is the reader’s permission to sit with that residue until feeling arrives before explanation. That small hesitation matters, because poetry often begins where summary stops being enough.

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