El silencio de las horas by Amanda Reverón and translated by Don Cellini

This is poetry from Venezuela.

El silencio de las horas by Amanda Reverón translated by Don Cellini is published by Mayapple Press. This is a Book originally written in Spanish. This was published in 2016.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781936419678E12.

El silencio de las horas arrives in this batch as a Venezuela entry translated from Spanish by Don Cellini, and its title already opens a useful path into the book. I read it through Amanda Reverón’s silence of hours, a Venezuelan lyric space where time feels hushed, suspended, and quietly exacting. 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 Mayapple 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.

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