Book record
Destruction of the Lover
Luis Panini
Translated from Spanish by Lawrence Schimel
Destruction of the Lover, by Luis Panini, is a Spanish poetry collection from Mexico, translated by Lawrence Schimel, published by Pleiades Press in 2019. It is a Mexican collection where erotic address is already under pressure from erasure, violence, and transformation. Panini's title does not let love remain decorative; it asks what survives when desire passes through ruin. 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. It is the chance to let a particular book create its own weather, its own difficulty, and its own way of asking the reader to listen.
- Published
- 2019
- Publisher
- Pleiades Press
- Language
- Spanish
- Country
- Mexico
- ISBN
- 9780997099430