Praises and offenses by Anthology and translated by Judith Kerman

This is poetry from Dominican Republic.

Praises and offenses by Anthology translated by Judith Kerman is published by BOA Editions. This is a Book originally written in Spanish. This was published in 2009.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781934414309E12.

Praises and offenses is an anthology of Spanish poetry, translated by Judith Kerman, published by BOA Editions in 2009. It is an anthology of Dominican poetry that holds celebration and injury in the same frame. As an anthology, its force comes from refusing to make national poetry either purely ceremonial or purely wounded; praise and offense arrive together. I would not approach it as a book that needs to be solved before it can begin working. Start with the title, the pressure of the translated line, and the feeling of a voice making room for itself in English. The value here is not just metadata or representation. It is the chance to let a particular book create its own weather, its own difficulty, and its own way of asking the reader to listen.

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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