Eyes Already Ruined by Luis Aguilar and translated by Lawrence Schimel

This is poetry from Mexico.

Eyes Already Ruined by Luis Aguilar translated by Lawrence Schimel is published by Libros Medio Siglo. This is a Book originally written in Spanish. This was published in 2015.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780986449703E12.

Luis Aguilar’s Eyes Already Ruined, translated by Lawrence Schimel, gives the Mexican section a title of damaged perception. The eyes are already ruined, which means the poem begins after injury, after seeing too much, or after vision has lost its innocence. That is a potent position for lyric poetry. It suggests that perception itself is compromised, but still necessary. Published by Libros Medio Siglo, the collection belongs on the shelf as a work of sharp, wounded seeing. I would read it for the tension between image and distrust: what can be seen, what should not have been seen, and what language does when looking is no longer harmless.

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