Dissection by Care Santos and translated by Lawrence Schimel

This is poetry from Spain.

Dissection by Care Santos translated by Lawrence Schimel is published by A Midsummer Nights Press. This is a Book originally written in Spanish. This was published in 2014.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781938334122E12.

Dissection, by Care Santos, is a Spanish poetry collection from Spain, translated by Lawrence Schimel, published by A Midsummer Nights Press in 2014. It is a Spanish collection by Care Santos whose title suggests incision, analysis, and the body opened as text. The poems invite a reader to think of lyric attention as a scalpel, capable of tenderness and violence in the same gesture. I would not approach it as a book that needs to be solved or reduced to context before it can begin working. Start with the pressure of the title, the texture of the translated line, and the feeling of a voice making room for itself in English. For this library, the book matters as more than a record of Spain; it is an invitation to let poetry remain particular, difficult, and alive without asking it to behave like explanation.

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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