Sardine by Miriam Reyes and translated by Laura Cesarco Eglin

This is poetry from Spain.

Sardine by Miriam Reyes translated by Laura Cesarco Eglin is published by Ugly Duckling. This is a Book originally written in Galician. This was published in 2026.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781946604446E12.

Miriam Reyes’s Sardine, translated by Laura Cesarco Eglin from Galician, should be introduced as more than a piece of metadata. The book’s charge gathers around smallness, salt, sea, and bodily compression, 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 Spain without being flattened into a lesson. Sardine 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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