Returnings by Rafael Alberti and translated by Carolyn Tipton

This is poetry from Spain.

Returnings by Rafael Alberti translated by Carolyn Tipton is published by White Pine Press. This is a Book originally written in Spanish. This was published in 2016.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781935210917E12.

There is a strong literary gravity around Returnings, Rafael Alberti’s Spanish-language work translated by Carolyn Tipton. The book’s center of force is Rafael Alberti’s return-work, where exile, memory, and Spanish lyric music circle the possibility of coming back without being unchanged, but I would not want to reduce it to theme alone. Poetry like this is often most alive where it refuses to behave as explanation. It lets place, body, history, and sound touch in ways that prose summary can only approximate. As a translated entry from Spain, it gives the shelf another angle of approach: not simply what happened there, but how a voice from there can remake English.

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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