Echo of the park by Romina E. Freschi and translated by Jeannine Marie Pitas

This is poetry from Argentina.

Echo of the park by Romina E. Freschi translated by Jeannine Marie Pitas is published by Eulalia Books. This is a Book originally written in Spanish. This was published in 2019.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781732936317E12.

Romina E. Freschi’s Echo of the Park, translated by Jeannine Marie Pitas, reads as a work of urban listening. The park is not merely a setting here, but a resonant public space where memory, body, speech, and history keep touching one another. Freschi’s poems seem alert to how a city speaks through fragments: overheard voices, passing presences, weather, social tension, and the little disturbances that change the shape of a day. Pitas’s translation gives the book a clean enough surface for the reader to enter, while preserving the sense that something stranger is vibrating underneath. I would place this book near readers interested in contemporary Argentine poetry that does not choose between lyric intimacy and civic atmosphere. Echo of the Park is quiet in the way a public place is quiet: never actually silent, only full of sounds one has to learn to notice.

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