Downhill and Rock and Core (Basque Classics Series) by Gabriel Aresti and translated by Amaia Gabantxo

This is poetry from Spain.

Downhill and Rock and Core (Basque Classics Series) by Gabriel Aresti translated by Amaia Gabantxo is published by Center for Basque Studies. This is a Book originally written in Basque. This was published in 2017.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781935709763E12.

Downhill and Rock and Core (Basque Classics Series), by Gabriel Aresti, is a Basque poetry collection from Spain, translated by Amaia Gabantxo, published by Center for Basque Studies in 2017. It is a Basque classic that sounds geological even by title, interested in descent, hardness, foundation, and the civic weight of speech. The useful first posture is patience, not mastery. A poem can move before it explains itself, and this book seems best met through image, rhythm, and the emotional pressure of its address. For a translated poetry shelf, that kind of encounter is the whole point: another language making a new shape inside English.

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