Intervenir/Intervene by Dolores Dorantes and translated by Rodrigo Flores Sánchez, Jen Hofer

This is poetry from Mexico.

Intervenir/Intervene by Dolores Dorantes translated by Rodrigo Flores Sánchez, Jen Hofer is published by Ugly Duckling Presse. This is a Book originally written in Spanish. This was published in 2015.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781937027414E12.

Intervenir/Intervene, by Dolores Dorantes, is a Spanish poetry collection from Mexico, translated by Rodrigo Flores Sánchez, Jen Hofer, published by Ugly Duckling Presse in 2015. It is a Mexican collection that treats intervention as political act, lyric method, and necessary interruption. Dorantes’s work often feels like speech entering a room where speech has been managed, surveilled, or denied. 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.

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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