Burning cartography by Noni Benegas and translated by Noel Valis

This is poetry from Argentina.

Burning cartography by Noni Benegas translated by Noel Valis is published by Host Publications. This is a Book originally written in Spanish. This was published in 2008.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780924047435E12.

Burning cartography, by Noni Benegas, is a Spanish poetry collection from Argentina, translated by Noel Valis, published by Host Publications in 2008. It is an Argentine Spanish-language collection where maps, fire, feminism, and displacement meet. Benegas’s title turns orientation into combustion, as though the map itself cannot survive the territory it describes. I would not ask the reader to solve this book before feeling it. The better invitation is to start with the image that will not quite explain itself, then follow the pressure of cadence, silence, and address. For this library, the book matters as more than a representative entry from Argentina. It gives English-language readers another route into how poetry travels: not as a tidy report from elsewhere, but as a living encounter with local weather, historical pressure, and the privacy of a voice.

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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