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Ficticia
María Baranda
Translated from Spanish by Joshua Edwards
María Baranda’s Ficticia, translated by Joshua Edwards, is a Mexican poetry entry of dream, invention, and instability. The title suggests the fictive, but not in the sense of mere falsehood. Fiction can be a way of reaching truths that ordinary statement cannot hold. Baranda’s work often moves through long sequences, elemental imagery, and a mixture of mythic and contemporary pressures. Published by Shearsman Books, this collection should be approached as an atmosphere one enters rather than a puzzle one solves. It belongs in the library because it shows Mexican poetry thinking through dream logic, anxiety, landscape, and the self’s invented shelters. Let the poem be fictive enough to become real.
- Published
- 2010
- Publisher
- Shearsman Books
- Language
- Spanish
- Country
- Mexico
- ISBN
- 9781848611238