Great Vilas by Manuel Vilas and translated by Pablo Rodríguez Balbontín with William F

This is poetry from Spain.

Great Vilas by Manuel Vilas translated by Pablo Rodríguez Balbontín with William F is published by Song Bridge Press. This is a Book originally written in Spanish. This was published in 2016.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780692650189E12.

There is a strong literary gravity around Great Vilas, Manuel Vilas’s Spanish-language work translated by Pablo Rodríguez Balbontín and William F.. The book’s center of force is Manuel Vilas’s expansive Spanish self-mythology, where greatness can sound funny, wounded, excessive, and terribly sincere at once, but I would not want to reduce it to theme alone. Poetry like this is often most alive where it refuses to behave as explanation. It lets place, body, history, and sound touch in ways that prose summary can only approximate. As a translated entry from Spain, it gives the shelf another angle of approach: not simply what happened there, but how a voice from there can remake English.

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