China Pop by Domingo de Ramos and translated by Thomas Ward

This is poetry from Peru.

China Pop by Domingo de Ramos translated by Thomas Ward is published by Cardboard House Press. This is a Book originally written in Spanish. This was published in 2015.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780990660149E12.

There is a strong literary gravity around China Pop, Domingo de Ramos’s Spanish-language work translated by Thomas Ward. The book’s center of force is Domingo de Ramos’s Peruvian urban edge, with pop culture, city life, and political abrasion pressed into the poem’s surfaces, but I would not want to reduce it to theme alone. Poetry like this is often most alive where it refuses to behave as explanation. It lets place, body, history, and sound touch in ways that prose summary can only approximate. As a translated entry from Peru, it gives the shelf another angle of approach: not simply what happened there, but how a voice from there can remake English.

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