Strangely happy by Joan Margarit and translated by Anna Crowe

This is poetry from Spain.

Strangely happy by Joan Margarit translated by Anna Crowe is published by Bloodaxe Books. This is a Book originally written in Catalan. This was published in 2011.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781852248932E12.

Strangely happy, by Joan Margarit, is a Catalan poetry collection from Spain, translated by Anna Crowe, published by Bloodaxe Books in 2011. It is a Catalan collection with a title that catches the odd emotional weather of joy after grief, or joy beside it. Rather than forcing the poems into a clean thesis, I would let the book remain somewhat unruly. Translation is useful exactly there, where the English line carries both arrival and residue. What matters is the reader’s permission to sit with that residue until feeling arrives before explanation. That small hesitation matters, because poetry often begins where summary stops being enough.

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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