The complete perfectionist by Juan Ramón Jiménez and translated by Christopher Maurer

This is poetry from Spain.

The complete perfectionist by Juan Ramón Jiménez translated by Christopher Maurer is published by Swan Isle Press. This is a Book originally written in Spanish. This was published in 2012.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780983322009E12.

There is a strong literary gravity around The complete perfectionist, Juan Ramón Jiménez’s Spanish-language work translated by Christopher Maurer. The book’s center of force is Juan Ramón Jiménez’s perfectionist lyric attention, where exactness becomes almost spiritual and the poem keeps polishing perception, but I would not want to reduce it to theme alone. Poetry like this is often most alive where it refuses to behave as explanation. It lets place, body, history, and sound touch in ways that prose summary can only approximate. As a translated entry from Spain, it gives the shelf another angle of approach: not simply what happened there, but how a voice from there can remake English.

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