Silence from the Forest (Silencios Del Bosque) by Esther Bendala Pavon and translated by Corinne J. Stanley, Corrine Stanley

This is poetry from Spain.

Silence from the Forest (Silencios Del Bosque) by Esther Bendala Pavon translated by Corinne J. Stanley, Corrine Stanley is published by BookBaby. This is a Book originally written in Spanish. This was published in 2018.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781543929461E12.

Silence from the Forest (Silencios Del Bosque), by Esther Bendala Pavon, is a Spanish poetry collection from Spain, translated by Corinne J. Stanley, Corrine Stanley, published by BookBaby in 2018. It is a bilingual Spanish collection whose title gives silence a landscape and a dwelling place. The poems invite a slower kind of reading, one attentive to trees, hush, solitude, and the speech that may exist beneath language. 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 Spain; it is an invitation to let poetry remain particular, difficult, and alive without asking it to behave like explanation.

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