Fire Wind by Yvan Yauri and translated by Marta del Pozo

This is poetry from Peru.

Fire Wind by Yvan Yauri translated by Marta del Pozo is published by Ugly Duckling Presse. This is a Book originally written in Spanish. This was published in 2011.0 and has the ISBN of 9.78193325476E12.

Yvan Yauri’s Fire Wind, translated by Marta del Pozo, belongs on the shelf as more than a data point from Peru. It carries Yvan Yauri’s Peruvian lyric heat, a book that sounds as though wind and flame have been asked to speak before explanation arrives. The best entries in a translated poetry library do not merely point to a country, language, or press; they give a reader a reason to linger with the strangeness of another voice. This is the kind of book I would describe through atmosphere first and certainty second. Let the work be partial, difficult, plainspoken, excessive, or mysterious on its own terms before turning it into a lesson.

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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