Ima and Coli Are the Tree That Was Never a Seed by Alejandro Pérez-Cortés and translated by Sean Manning

This is poetry from Mexico.

Ima and Coli Are the Tree That Was Never a Seed by Alejandro Pérez-Cortés translated by Sean Manning is published by Akashic Books. This is a Book originally written in Spanish. This was published in 2021.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781617759819E12.

Alejandro Pérez-Cortés’s Ima and Coli Are the Tree That Was Never a Seed, translated by Sean Manning, is a Mexican entry with a title that feels like fable, origin myth, and philosophical joke at once. A tree that was never a seed breaks the ordinary order of becoming. It asks how something can exist without the expected beginning. That makes the book immediately useful for readers interested in mythic imagination, ecological thought, and the strange grammar of transformation. Published by Akashic Books, it belongs in the library as a work that seems willing to let narrative and lyric braid together. The title alone gives permission to think sideways about birth, growth, kinship, and impossibility.

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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