The Eligible Age by Berta García Faet and translated by Kelsi Vanada

This is poetry from Spain.

The Eligible Age by Berta García Faet translated by Kelsi Vanada is published by The Song Bridge Project. This is a Book originally written in Spanish. This was published in 2018.0 and has the ISBN of 9.7809997549E12.

The Eligible Age, by Berta García Faet, is a Spanish poetry collection from Spain, translated by Kelsi Vanada, published by The Song Bridge Project in 2018. It is a contemporary Spanish collection alert to youth, desire, irony, and the social theater of becoming legible to others. García Faet’s poems feel quick-minded without becoming merely clever, interested in how a self is dressed, judged, loved, and translated into public speech. I would not approach it as a book that needs to be solved before it can be felt. 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.

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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