Never made in American by Martín Barea Mattos and translated by Mark Statman

This is poetry from Uruguay.

Never made in American by Martín Barea Mattos translated by Mark Statman is published by Diálogos Books. This is a Book originally written in Spanish. This was published in 2017.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781944884178E12.

Never made in American, by Martín Barea Mattos and translated from Spanish by Mark Statman, gives English-language readers Martín Barea Mattos’s title already argues with Americanness, translation, and cultural manufacture, carrying defiance in its grammar. Published by Diálogos Books, it should be approached first as a book of encounter rather than as a biographical assignment. The useful question is not what the poems are supposed to mean in a single solved sentence, but what kind of attention they ask the reader to practice. For this library, the entry matters because it keeps Uruguay in the translated poetry conversation as a living source of image, pressure, and voice.

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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