New Leaves by Rosalía de Castro and translated by Erín Mouré

This is poetry from Spain.

New Leaves by Rosalía de Castro translated by Erín Mouré is published by Small Stations. This is a Book originally written in Galician. This was published in 2016.0 and has the ISBN of 9.789543840588E12.

New Leaves, by Rosalía de Castro and translated from Galician by Erín Mouré, is the kind of book that asks for a slower reader. Its center of gravity seems to be renewal, song, grief, and the return of language, but the point is not to make those themes behave too neatly. Poetry is often most alive when it lets a reader feel a relation before naming it. I would place this book in front of someone willing to follow image, cadence, and mood before demanding a thesis. The translation carries a voice shaped by poetry connected to Spain into English while keeping enough strangeness intact for the encounter to matter. New Leaves belongs here because it enlarges the shelf’s emotional and linguistic weather.

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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