Sakra Boccata by José Antonio Mazzotti and translated by Clayton Eshleman

This is poetry from Peru.

Sakra Boccata by José Antonio Mazzotti translated by Clayton Eshleman is published by Ugly Duckling Presse. This is a Book originally written in Spanish. This was published in 2013.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781937027162E12.

Sakra Boccata, by José Antonio Mazzotti, is a Spanish poetry collection from Peru, translated by Clayton Eshleman, published by Ugly Duckling Presse in 2013. It is a Peruvian collection by José Antonio Mazzotti translated by Clayton Eshleman, charged with baroque, bodily, and historical energy. The poems feel built from collision: sacred mouth, broken archive, colonial pressure, and the dense music of a language refusing neatness. 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 Peru; it is an invitation to let poetry remain particular, difficult, and alive without asking it to behave like explanation.

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