Brush by Eliana Hernández-Pachón and translated by Robin Myers

This is poetry from Colombia.

Brush by Eliana Hernández-Pachón translated by Robin Myers is published by Steerforth Press. This is a Book originally written in Spanish. This was published in 2024.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781953861863E12.

Brush, by Eliana Hernández-Pachón, is a Spanish poetry collection from Colombia, translated by Robin Myers, published by Steerforth Press in 2024. It is a Colombian collection that treats landscape, violence, and vegetal life as inseparable from witness. Hernández-Pachón’s poems seem to ask how a country remembers through plants, ash, bodies, and the marks left by disaster. 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 Colombia; 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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