Miguel Hernández by Miguel Hernández and translated by Don Share

This is poetry from Spain.

Miguel Hernández by Miguel Hernández translated by Don Share is published by New York Review Books. This is a Book originally written in Spanish. This was published in 2013.0 and has the ISBN of 9.78159017629E12.

There is a strong literary gravity around Miguel Hernández, Miguel Hernández’s Spanish-language work translated by Don Share. The book’s center of force is Miguel Hernández’s Spanish lyric of courage, hunger, love, and war, a poet whose directness still carries enormous emotional charge, but I would not want to reduce it to theme alone. Poetry like this is often most alive where it refuses to behave as explanation. It lets place, body, history, and sound touch in ways that prose summary can only approximate. As a translated entry from Spain, it gives the shelf another angle of approach: not simply what happened there, but how a voice from there can remake English.

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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