Chance encounters and waking dreams by Francisco Ferrer Lerín and translated by Arturo Mantecón

This is poetry from Spain.

Chance encounters and waking dreams by Francisco Ferrer Lerín translated by Arturo Mantecón is published by Independent Publisher. This is a Book originally written in Spanish. This was published in 2016.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781495197147E12.

Chance encounters and waking dreams, by Francisco Ferrer Lerín, is a Spanish poetry collection from Spain, translated by Arturo Mantecón, published by Independent Publisher in 2016. It is a Spanish collection by Francisco Ferrer Lerín that sounds drawn to accident, dream logic, and unsettled perception. The book’s title makes a promise of odd arrivals, where the real world keeps brushing against the surreal without announcing the border. 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 Spain; 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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