Bomarzo by Elsa Cross and translated by Lawrence Schimel

This is poetry from Mexico.

Bomarzo by Elsa Cross translated by Lawrence Schimel is published by Shearsman Books. This is a Book originally written in Spanish. This was published in 2019.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781848616509E12.

Bomarzo, by Elsa Cross, is a Spanish poetry collection from Mexico, translated by Lawrence Schimel, published by Shearsman Books in 2019. It is a Mexican collection by Elsa Cross that likely draws toward ruin, garden, myth, and the charged architecture of imagination. Cross is a poet of spiritual and visual density, and the book feels best approached as a place rather than a thesis. I would not approach it as a book that needs to be solved before it can begin working. Start with the title, the pressure of the translated line, and the feeling of a voice making room for itself in English. The value here is not just metadata or representation. It is the chance to let a particular book create its own weather, its own difficulty, and its own way of asking the reader to listen.

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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