Book record
fungus skull eye wing: Selected Poems of Alfonso D’Aquino
Alfonso D'Aquino
Translated from Spanish by Forrest Gander
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.
- Published
- 2013
- Publisher
- Copper Canyon Press
- Language
- Spanish
- Country
- Mexico
- ISBN
- 9781556594472