Llamar al agua por su nombre by Laura Cesarco Eglin and translated by Scott Spanbauer

This is poetry from Uruguay.

Llamar al agua por su nombre by Laura Cesarco Eglin translated by Scott Spanbauer is published by Mouthfeel Press. This is a Book originally written in Spanish. This was published in 2016.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780996724708E12.

Laura Cesarco Eglin’s Llamar al agua por su nombre, translated by Scott Spanbauer, belongs on the shelf as more than a data point from Uruguay. It carries Laura Cesarco Eglin’s water-naming lyric, where language itself becomes touch, summons, and the difficulty of saying what sustains us. The best entries in a translated poetry library do not merely point to a country, language, or press; they give a reader a reason to linger with the strangeness of another voice. This is the kind of book I would describe through atmosphere first and certainty second. Let the work be partial, difficult, plainspoken, excessive, or mysterious on its own terms before turning it into a lesson.

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