Houston, I’m the Problem by Óscar García Sierra and translated by Carmen Yus Quintero

This is poetry from Spain.

Houston, I’m the Problem by Óscar García Sierra translated by Carmen Yus Quintero is published by World Poetry Books. This is a Book originally written in Spanish. This was published in 2023.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781954218185E12.

Houston, I’m the Problem, by Óscar García Sierra, is a Spanish poetry collection from Spain, translated by Carmen Yus Quintero, published by World Poetry Books in 2023. It is a Spanish collection with a pop-cultural title that turns alienation into joke, signal, and distress call. García Sierra’s poems sound tuned to contemporary dislocation, where selfhood can feel both broadcast and lost in the noise of its own transmission. I would not approach it as a book that needs to be solved before it can be felt. Start with the pressure of the title, the texture of the translated line, and the feeling of a voice making room for itself in English. For this library, the book matters as more than a record of Spain; it is an invitation to let poetry remain particular, difficult, and alive without asking it to behave like explanation.

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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