State of Exile (City Lights Pocket Poets Series) by Cristina Peri Rossi and translated by Marilyn Buck

This is poetry from Uruguay.

State of Exile (City Lights Pocket Poets Series) by Cristina Peri Rossi translated by Marilyn Buck is published by City Lights Books. This is a Book originally written in Spanish. This was published in 2008.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780872864634E12.

State of Exile (City Lights Pocket Poets Series), by Cristina Peri Rossi and translated from Spanish by Marilyn Buck, gives English-language readers Cristina Peri Rossi’s exile-state, a Uruguayan work where displacement becomes geography, politics, erotic consciousness, and ongoing condition. Published by City Lights Books, it should be approached first as a book of encounter rather than as a biographical assignment. The useful question is not what the poems are supposed to mean in a single solved sentence, but what kind of attention they ask the reader to practice. For this library, the entry matters because it keeps Uruguay in the translated poetry conversation as a living source of image, pressure, and voice.

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.

Check out more of the always in-progress translated poetry index here.