fungus skull eye wing: Selected Poems of Alfonso D’Aquino by Alfonso D’Aquino and translated by Forrest Gander

This is poetry from Mexico.

fungus skull eye wing: Selected Poems of Alfonso D’Aquino by Alfonso D’Aquino translated by Forrest Gander is published by Copper Canyon Press. This is a Selected originally written in Spanish. This was published in 2013.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781556594472E12.

fungus skull eye wing: Selected Poems of Alfonso D’Aquino, by Alfonso D’Aquino, is a Spanish poetry collection from Mexico, translated by Forrest Gander, published by Copper Canyon Press in 2013. It is a Mexican selected volume whose title gives the reader a little taxonomy of transformation. D’Aquino’s poems seem built from living matter, death matter, sight, and flight, all of it crossing between the biological and the visionary. I would not approach it as a book that needs to be solved before it can begin working. Start with the title, the pressure of the translated line, and the feeling of a voice making room for itself in English. The value here is not just metadata or representation. It is the chance to let a particular book create its own weather, its own difficulty, and its own way of asking the reader to listen.

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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