Breach of trust by Angel Escobar Varela and translated by Kristin Dykstra

This is poetry from Cuba.

Breach of trust by Angel Escobar Varela translated by Kristin Dykstra is published by University of Alabama Press. This is a Book originally written in Spanish. This was published in 2016.0 and has the ISBN of 9.78081735873E12.

Breach of trust, by Angel Escobar Varela, is a Spanish poetry collection from Cuba, translated by Kristin Dykstra, published by University of Alabama Press in 2016. It is a Cuban collection by Ángel Escobar Varela attentive to rupture, intimacy, and psychic intensity. The book’s title suggests betrayal not only between people, but between self and world, language and safety, promise and survival. I would not approach it as a book that needs to be solved or reduced to context before it can begin working. Start with the pressure of the title, the texture of the translated line, and the feeling of a voice making room for itself in English. For this library, the book matters as more than a record of Cuba; it is an invitation to let poetry remain particular, difficult, and alive without asking it to behave like explanation.

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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