Citations and Commentaries by Juan Gelman and translated by Lisa Bradford

This is poetry from Argentina.

Citations and Commentaries by Juan Gelman translated by Lisa Bradford is published by Coimbra Editions. This is a Book originally written in Spanish. This was published in 2010.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780982655634E12.

Citations and Commentaries, by Juan Gelman, is a Spanish poetry collection from Argentina, translated by Lisa Bradford, published by Coimbra Editions in 2010. It is an Argentine Spanish-language volume by Juan Gelman where quotation, response, exile, and elegiac address move together. The title suggests a poetry built from listening to other voices, then answering them with grief, tenderness, and thought. 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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