Looking For The Horse Latitudes by Miguel Gonzalez-Gerth and translated by Miguel Gonzalez-Gerth

This is poetry from Mexico.

Looking For The Horse Latitudes by Miguel Gonzalez-Gerth translated by Miguel Gonzalez-Gerth is published by Host Publications. This is a Book originally written in Spanish. This was published in 2008.0 and has the ISBN of 9.78092404748E12.

Looking For The Horse Latitudes, by Miguel Gonzalez-Gerth, is a Spanish poetry collection from Mexico, translated by Miguel Gonzalez-Gerth, published by Host Publications in 2008. It is a Mexican collection drawn toward maritime drift, difficult passage, and the strange dead zones of weather and motion. Gonzalez-Gerth’s title makes searching feel historical and atmospheric, as though lyric attention were a vessel stuck in uneasy air. 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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