Birnam Wood by José Manuel Cardona Amaya and translated by Helene Cardona

This is poetry from Spain.

Birnam Wood by José Manuel Cardona Amaya translated by Helene Cardona is published by Salmon Poetry. This is a Book originally written in Spanish. This was published in 2018.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781912561186E12.

Birnam Wood arrives in this batch as a Spain entry translated from Spanish by Helene Cardona, and its title already opens a useful path into the book. I read it through José Manuel Cardona Amaya’s Shakespeare-haunted title, using Birnam Wood as a threshold between literary inheritance and Spanish lyric movement. 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 Salmon Poetry, the book widens the library’s sense of what contemporary and modern Spanish-language literature can hold.

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.