Black tulips by José María Hinojosa and translated by Mark Statman

This is poetry from Spain.

Black tulips by José María Hinojosa translated by Mark Statman is published by uno Press. This is a Book originally written in Spanish. This was published in 2012.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781608010882E12.

José María Hinojosa’s Black tulips, translated by Mark Statman, belongs on the shelf as more than a data point from Spain. It carries José María Hinojosa’s Spanish surrealist charge, where black tulips feel less like flowers than dream-signals from a disturbed garden. The best entries in a translated poetry library do not merely point to a country, language, or press; they give a reader a reason to linger with the strangeness of another voice. This is the kind of book I would describe through atmosphere first and certainty second. Let the work be partial, difficult, plainspoken, excessive, or mysterious on its own terms before turning it into a lesson.

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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