Desolation of the chimera by Luis Cernuda and translated by Stephen Kessler

This is poetry from Spain.

Desolation of the chimera by Luis Cernuda translated by Stephen Kessler is published by White Pine Press. This is a Book originally written in Spanish. This was published in 2009.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781935210009E12.

Desolation of the chimera arrives in this batch as a Spain entry translated from Spanish by Stephen Kessler, and its title already opens a useful path into the book. I read it through Luis Cernuda’s late Spanish exile music, where desire and disillusion make a chimera out of memory itself. That does not mean the book needs to be solved through those three ideas, only that they give a reader somewhere to stand before the language begins moving. What I want from a description here is permission: start with the image, the rhythm, the odd pressure of a phrase. Published by White Pine Press, the book widens the library’s sense of what contemporary and modern Spanish-language literature can hold.

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.

Check out more of the always in-progress translated poetry index here.