Book record
Here the Sun’s For Real
José Eugenio Sánchez
Translated from Spanish by Anna Rosenwong
José Eugenio Sánchez’s Here the Sun’s For Real, translated by Anna Rosenwong, has the kind of title that sounds casual until it becomes metaphysical. “For real” gives the sun an almost conversational insistence, as though light itself has to prove its existence. Sánchez’s work often carries humor, pop energy, and experimental looseness, and this Mexican entry seems likely to move with that live-wire sensibility. Published by Autumn Hill Books, the collection belongs on the shelf as a book of immediacy, brightness, and playful assertion. I would read it as a reminder that poetry does not always need to whisper in the museum. Sometimes it can point at the sun and say, look, this is actually happening.
- Published
- 2018
- Publisher
- Autumn Hill Books
- Language
- Spanish
- Country
- Mexico
- ISBN
- 9780998740027