Impossible Loves by JARAMILLO and translated by Richard Gwyn

This is poetry from Colombia.

Impossible Loves by JARAMILLO translated by Richard Gwyn is published by Carcanet Press, Limited. This is a Book originally written in Spanish. This was published in 2019.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781784108618E12.

Impossible Loves, by JARAMILLO, is a Spanish poetry collection from Colombia, translated by Richard Gwyn, published by Carcanet Press, Limited in 2019. It is a Colombian collection centered on love as impossibility, weather, and lyric problem. Jaramillo’s poems are likely to appeal to readers who want romance without softness, feeling without easy consolation. 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 Colombia; 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.

Check out more of the always in-progress translated poetry index here.