Field guide by Darío Jaramillo Agudelo and translated by Don Share

This is poetry from Colombia.

Field guide by Darío Jaramillo Agudelo translated by Don Share is published by Marick Press. This is a Book originally written in Spanish. This was published in 2012.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781934851456E12.

Darío Jaramillo Agudelo’s Field Guide, translated by Don Share, suggests poetry as a form of attentive identification. A field guide teaches one how to notice, name, distinguish, and return to the world with better eyes. In Jaramillo Agudelo’s hands, that impulse can move through love, memory, urban life, loss, and the emotional species that populate a human day. Share’s translation gives the poems an English clarity that suits the title’s promise of guidance, though the best poetic field guides do not reduce mystery. They increase it by making attention more precise. I would recommend this book to readers who want Colombian poetry that is intimate, lucid, and quietly philosophical. Field Guide is not a manual for mastering the world. It is an invitation to walk through it more carefully, aware that every feeling may have its own plumage, track, and weather.

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