Cipango by Tomás Harris and translated by Daniel Shapiro

This is poetry from Chile.

Cipango by Tomás Harris translated by Daniel Shapiro is published by Bucknell University Press. This is a Book originally written in Spanish. This was published in 2009.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780838757345E12.

Cipango, by Tomás Harris, is a Spanish poetry collection from Chile, translated by Daniel Shapiro, published by Bucknell University Press in 2009. It is a Chilean collection where geography, conquest, and hallucinated history seem to cross-contaminate each other. Harris’s title points toward imagined islands and colonial fantasy, and the poems can be read as a voyage through damaged maps. 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 Chile; 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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