I Offer My Heart As a Target / Ofrezco Mi Corazón Como una Diana by Johanny Vázquez Paz and translated by Lawrence Schimel

This is poetry from United States.

I Offer My Heart As a Target / Ofrezco Mi Corazón Como una Diana by Johanny Vázquez Paz translated by Lawrence Schimel is published by Akashic Books. This is a Book originally written in Spanish. This was published in 2019.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781617757631E12.

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.

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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