Fire’s Journey, Part II by Eunice Odio and translated by Mauricio Espinoza, Sonia P. Ticas, Keith Ekiss

This is poetry from Costa Rica.

Fire’s Journey, Part II by Eunice Odio translated by Mauricio Espinoza, Sonia P. Ticas, Keith Ekiss is published by Tavern Books. This is a Book originally written in Spanish. This was published in 2015.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781935635482E12.

Fire’s Journey, Part II, by Eunice Odio, is a Spanish poetry collection from Costa Rica, translated by Mauricio Espinoza, Sonia P. Ticas, Keith Ekiss, published by Tavern Books in 2015. It is a Costa Rican epic sequence by Eunice Odio, dense with mythic, spiritual, and elemental imagination. The work feels less like a lyric collection than a cosmology in motion, where fire becomes origin, trial, and visionary passage. I would not approach it as a book that needs to be solved or reduced to context before it can begin working. Start with the pressure of the title, the texture of the translated line, and the feeling of a voice making room for itself in English. For this library, the book matters as more than a record of Costa Rica; it is an invitation to let poetry remain particular, difficult, and alive without asking it to behave like explanation.

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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