Itinerario del olvido / Itinerary of Forgetting by Nelson Simón and translated by Lawrence Schimel

This is poetry from Cuba.

Itinerario del olvido / Itinerary of Forgetting by Nelson Simón translated by Lawrence Schimel is published by Skull and Wind Press LLC. This is a Book originally written in Spanish. This was published in 2020.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781733425315E12.

Itinerario del olvido / Itinerary of Forgetting, by Nelson Simón, is a Spanish poetry collection from Cuba, translated by Lawrence Schimel, published by Skull and Wind Press LLC in 2020. It is a Cuban collection that makes forgetting feel like a route one travels rather than a simple absence. Simón’s title is quietly devastating, because it implies that loss has its own geography, its own stations, and perhaps its own discipline. 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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