Hordes of Writing by Chus Pato and translated by Erín Mouré

This is poetry from Spain.

Hordes of Writing by Chus Pato translated by Erín Mouré is published by Shearsman Books. This is a Book originally written in Galician. This was published in 2011.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781848611672E12.

Chus Pato’s Hordes of Writing, translated from Galician by Erín Mouré, brings poetry connected to Spain into English through feminist experiment, language pressure, and intellectual swarm. I would not stop at the biographical or national frame, even when those contexts matter. The better entrance is through the poem’s pressure: the image that will not sit still, the phrase that feels slightly denser than ordinary speech, the moment where feeling outruns explanation. This description should help a reader know why the book belongs on the shelf without pretending the book has been solved in advance. Hordes of Writing feels useful for readers who want translated poetry to widen not only what they know, but how they 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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