Love Is a Place by Joan Margarit and translated by Anna Crowe

This is poetry from Spain.

Love Is a Place by Joan Margarit translated by Anna Crowe is published by Bloodaxe Books. This is a Book originally written in Catalan. This was published in 2016.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781780373287E12.

Love Is a Place, by Joan Margarit, is a Catalan poetry collection from Spain, translated by Anna Crowe, published by Bloodaxe Books in 2016. It is a Catalan collection in which love is not only feeling but geography, a place made by attention, loss, and return. 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, but the chance to let one poet’s particular difficulty create its own weather.

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.

Check out more of the always in-progress translated poetry index here.