The blind pain by Igor Barreto and translated by Rowena Hill

This is poetry from Venezuela.

The blind pain by Igor Barreto translated by Rowena Hill is published by Tavern Books. This is a Book originally written in Spanish. This was published in 2019.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781935635833E12.

The blind pain, by Igor Barreto and translated from Spanish by Rowena Hill, gives English-language readers Igor Barreto’s Venezuelan pain-country, where landscape and hurt meet without becoming simple allegory. Published by Tavern 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 Venezuela 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.