Book record
I Offer My Heart As a Target / Ofrezco Mi Corazón Como una Diana
Johanny Vázquez Paz
Translated from Spanish by Lawrence Schimel
I Offer My Heart As a Target / Ofrezco Mi Corazón Como una Diana, by Johanny Vázquez Paz, is a Spanish poetry collection from United States, translated by Lawrence Schimel, published by Akashic Books in 2019. It is a Spanish-English collection by Johanny Vázquez Paz where love and vulnerability arrive with the language of aim. The bilingual title makes the body both offering and risk, a lyric site where tenderness understands the possibility of being struck. I would not approach it as a book that needs to be solved or reduced to context before it can begin working. 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 United States; it is an invitation to let poetry remain particular, difficult, and alive without asking it to behave like explanation.
- Published
- 2019
- Publisher
- Akashic Books
- Language
- Spanish
- Country
- United States
- ISBN
- 9781617757631