Paraguayan Sea by Wilson Bueno and translated by Erín Moure

This is poetry from Brazil.

Paraguayan Sea by Wilson Bueno translated by Erín Moure is published by Nightboat Books. This is a Book originally written in Guarani. This was published in 2017.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781937658748E12.

Wilson Bueno’s Paraguayan Sea, translated by Erín Moure from Guarani, should be introduced as more than a piece of metadata. The book’s charge gathers around Guarani, impossible sea, border language, and invented geography, and that makes it valuable for readers who want poems to think through sensation rather than explanation. I like descriptions that admit when a book may ask for patience, because patience is not a flaw in poetry. It is one of the pleasures. Read this one for the line that lingers, the image that feels half familiar and half impossible, the pressure of a voice shaped by poetry connected to Brazil without being flattened into a lesson. Paraguayan Sea earns its place as a work of attention.

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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