From Known to Unknown by Manuel Rivas and translated by Jonathan Dunne

This is poetry from Spain.

From Known to Unknown by Manuel Rivas translated by Jonathan Dunne is published by Small Stations. This is a Book originally written in Galician. This was published in 2009.0 and has the ISBN of 9.789543840045E12.

From Known to Unknown, by Manuel Rivas and translated by Jonathan Dunne from Galician, brings Galician poetry from Spain into English through movement from certainty toward mystery, and Rivas’s habit of letting familiar landscapes open into stranger moral air. The metadata gives the reader a doorway, but the real value is what happens once the poem begins making its own weather. I would read it for passage, memory, departure, and the readerly pleasure of not arriving too quickly, not as a fixed lesson about a nation, period, or school. The best entry point is still the poem itself: the line that catches, the image that refuses to explain itself, the feeling that arrives before paraphrase. From Known to Unknown belongs in the translated poetry library because it treats Galician poetry as a route, not a destination.

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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