Maqroll’s Prayer and Other Poems by Álvaro Mutis and translated by Alastair Reid, Kristin Dykstra, Edith Grossman

This is poetry from Colombia.

Maqroll’s Prayer and Other Poems by Álvaro Mutis translated by Alastair Reid, Kristin Dykstra, Edith Grossman is published by New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The. This is a Book originally written in Spanish. This was published in 2024.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781590178744E12.

Maqroll’s Prayer and Other Poems, by Álvaro Mutis, is a Spanish poetry collection from Colombia, translated by Alastair Reid, Kristin Dykstra, Edith Grossman, published by New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The in 2024. It is a Colombian collection by Álvaro Mutis, bringing the mythic traveler Maqroll into lyric space. The book is essential for readers who like poetry with sea air, decay, wandering intelligence, and the melancholy of impossible voyages. I would not approach it as a book that needs to be solved or reduced to context before it can begin working. Start with the pressure of the title, the texture of the translated line, and the feeling of a voice making room for itself in English. For this library, the book matters as more than a record of Colombia; it is an invitation to let poetry remain particular, difficult, and alive without asking it to behave like explanation.

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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