Forked tongues by Anthology and translated by Manuela Palacios, Various

This is poetry from Spain.

Forked tongues by Anthology translated by Manuela Palacios, Various is published by Shearsman Books. This is a Book originally written in Galician, Basque, Catalan. This was published in 2012.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781848612419E12.

Forked tongues is an anthology of Galician, Basque, Catalan poetry, translated by Manuela Palacios, Various, published by Shearsman Books in 2012. It is an anthology of poetry from Galician, Basque, and Catalan contexts, where language politics and lyric identity meet. As an anthology, it makes multilingual Spain feel properly plural, not as a footnote to Castilian literature but as a field of distinct poetic worlds. I would not approach it as a book that needs to be solved before it can be felt. 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 Spain; 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.

Check out more of the always in-progress translated poetry index here.