Friday in Jerusalem and Other Poems by Marco Antonio Campos and translated by Katherine Hedeen

This is poetry from Mexico.

Friday in Jerusalem and Other Poems by Marco Antonio Campos translated by Katherine Hedeen is published by Salt Publishing. This is a Book originally written in Spanish. This was published in 2012.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781844718962E12.

Marco Antonio Campos’s Friday in Jerusalem and Other Poems, translated by Katherine Hedeen, places Mexican poetry in a geography of travel, history, and sacred pressure. Jerusalem is never only a city in literature. It is memory, conflict, devotion, ruin, longing, and argument. A Friday in that city already feels charged with ritual time. Campos’s work often moves through travel and literary cosmopolitanism, and Hedeen’s translation gives English-language readers access to that outward gaze. Published by Salt Publishing, the book belongs on the shelf as a Mexican collection looking beyond national borders without leaving its lyric consciousness behind. It is a book of pilgrimage, witness, and historical imagination.

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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