m-Talá by Chus Pato and translated by Erín Mouré

This is poetry from Spain.

m-Talá by Chus Pato translated by Erín Mouré is published by Shearsman Books. This is a Book originally written in Galician. This was published in 2009.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781848610453E12.

In m-Talá, Chus Pato arrives in English through Erín Mouré’s translation from Galician, with a lyric field shaped by fracture, Galician modernity, and the refusal of easy paraphrase. The metadata gives the reader a doorway, but the book should not be reduced to a country-language-press summary. I would read it for atmosphere and attention first: what kind of silence it makes, what kind of body it imagines, what kind of world becomes visible when the poem turns its head. The strongest value of this entry is that it gives readers permission to approach difficulty as texture rather than a locked door. m-Talá belongs in the library as a book of encounter, not simply information.

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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