Daybook 1918 by J. V. Foix and translated by Lawrence Venuti

This is poetry from Spain.

Daybook 1918 by J. V. Foix translated by Lawrence Venuti is published by Northwestern University Press. This is a Book originally written in Catalan. This was published in 2019.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780810140653E12.

Daybook 1918, by J. V. Foix, is a Catalan poetry collection from Spain, translated by Lawrence Venuti, published by Northwestern University Press in 2019. It is a Catalan modernist work shaped like a dated notebook, where history and perception meet in the charged immediacy of the daybook form. I would not approach it as a book that needs to be solved before it can begin working. Start with the title, the pressure of the translated line, and the feeling of a voice making room for itself in English. The value here is not just metadata or representation, but the chance to let one poet’s particular difficulty create its own weather.

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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