Poetics of wonder by Alberto Ruy Sánchez and translated by Rhonda Dahl Buchanan

This is poetry from Mexico.

Poetics of wonder by Alberto Ruy Sánchez translated by Rhonda Dahl Buchanan is published by White Pine Press. This is a Book originally written in Spanish. This was published in 2014.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781935210559E12.

Alberto Ruy Sánchez’s Poetics of wonder, translated by Rhonda Dahl Buchanan, sounds like a book that wants to defend astonishment without making it sentimental. The title suggests a work of poetic thinking as much as a conventional collection, something interested in wonder as craft, perception, and spiritual posture. Coming from Mexican Spanish into English through White Pine Press, the book sits comfortably inside a tradition of world literature that treats the essayistic and the lyric as companion forms. I would read it as a reminder that wonder is not naïveté. It is one of the harder disciplines available to a reader. Buchanan’s translation gives that discipline a new language, inviting attention to how thought becomes texture, and how the act of looking can become an ethics.

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