I’d ask you to join me by the Río Bravo and weep but you should know neither river nor tears remain by Jorge Humberto Chávez and translated by Lawrence Schimel

This is poetry from Mexico.

I’d ask you to join me by the Río Bravo and weep but you should know neither river nor tears remain by Jorge Humberto Chávez translated by Lawrence Schimel is published by Shearsman Books. This is a Book originally written in Spanish. This was published in 2016.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781848615151E12.

I’d ask you to join me by the Río Bravo and weep but you should know neither river nor tears remain, by Jorge Humberto Chávez, is a Spanish poetry collection from Mexico, translated by Lawrence Schimel, published by Shearsman Books in 2016. It is a Mexican border collection whose title arrives almost as a whole devastated poem. Chávez’s work asks readers to sit with what happens when even the expected symbols of grief and geography have been exhausted. I would not approach it as a book that needs to be solved before it can begin working. Start with the title, the pressure of the translated line, and the feeling of a voice making room for itself in English. The value here is not just metadata or representation. It is the chance to let a particular book create its own weather, its own difficulty, and its own way of asking the reader to listen.

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