Colaterales/collateral by Dinapiera di Donato Salazar and translated by Ricardo Alberto Maldonado

This is poetry from Venezuela.

Colaterales/collateral by Dinapiera di Donato Salazar translated by Ricardo Alberto Maldonado is published by Akashic Books. This is a Book originally written in Spanish. This was published in 2013.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781617751912E12.

There is a strong literary gravity around Colaterales/collateral, Dinapiera di Donato Salazar’s Spanish-language work translated by Ricardo Alberto Maldonado. The book’s center of force is Dinapiera di Donato Salazar’s collateral field, where the bilingual title suggests damage, relation, and the side-effects of history, 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 Venezuela, 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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