Nothing Is Lost by Jordi Doce and translated by Lawrence Schimel

This is poetry from Spain.

Nothing Is Lost by Jordi Doce translated by Lawrence Schimel is published by Shearsman Books. This is a Book originally written in Spanish. This was published in 2017.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781848615304E12.

Nothing Is Lost, by Jordi Doce, is a Spanish poetry collection from Spain, translated by Lawrence Schimel, published by Shearsman Books in 2017. It is a Spanish collection by Jordi Doce that treats loss, memory, and attention with quiet philosophical pressure. The title sounds consoling, but the poems likely complicate consolation by asking what preservation costs and what remains altered by time. 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 Spain; 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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