Litane by Alejandro Tarrab and translated by Clare Sullivan

This is poetry from Mexico.

Litane by Alejandro Tarrab translated by Clare Sullivan is published by Cardboard House Press. This is a Book originally written in Spanish. This was published in 2017.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781945720062E12.

Alejandro Tarrab’s Litane, translated by Clare Sullivan, is a Mexican poetry entry whose title evokes litany, repetition, prayer, and formal insistence. A litany is not only religious. It is a structure for returning, naming, invoking, and enduring. Tarrab’s work often moves through philosophical and bodily intensities, and this Cardboard House Press edition likely gives English readers a text of recurrence and pressure. I would approach it through cadence: what repeats, what changes, what the poem can bear by saying again. The book belongs on the shelf as a contemporary Mexican work of ritualized lyric attention, where language becomes a form of persistence rather than mere statement.

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