Book of the Peony by Gaspar Orozco and translated by Mark Weiss

This is poetry from Mexico.

Book of the Peony by Gaspar Orozco translated by Mark Weiss is published by Shearsman Books. This is a Book originally written in Spanish. This was published in 2017.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781848615663E12.

Gaspar Orozco’s Book of the Peony, translated by Mark Weiss, gives the Mexican section a title of floral attention, but I would not assume softness too quickly. A peony can be lush, ceremonial, excessive, and strangely formal. Orozco’s work often carries a cosmopolitan and experimental sensibility, so the flower may become a site for thinking through image, culture, ornament, and desire. Published by Shearsman Books, this collection should be approached as a field of composed intensity. The title suggests that one object, if attended to long enough, can become a whole book. That is one of poetry’s great arguments: the world is not lacking meaning. We are often lacking attention.

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