My Mother, Resurrected by Fabián Casas and translated by Adriana Scopino

This is poetry from Argentina.

My Mother, Resurrected by Fabián Casas translated by Adriana Scopino is published by Calypso Editions. This is a Book originally written in Spanish. This was published in 2017.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781944593032E12.

Fabián Casas’s My Mother, Resurrected, translated by Adriana Scopino, carries the emotional force of return without allowing resurrection to become easy consolation. Casas is often read as a poet of everyday speech, family memory, neighborhood life, sports, friendship, and grief held in deceptively plain language. That plainness can be disarming. The poems do not need to perform difficulty in order to touch the difficult. Scopino’s translation keeps the voice accessible and lived-in, which suits a book where personal loss and ordinary detail sit close together. I like the way a title like this risks sentiment and then asks the poems to make the risk worthwhile. My Mother, Resurrected is for readers who want grief without grandiosity, tenderness without polish, and a lyric voice that understands the dead return most often through the smallest details.

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