The history of violets by Marosa Di Giorgio and translated by Jeannine Marie Pitas

This is poetry from Uruguay.

The history of violets by Marosa Di Giorgio translated by Jeannine Marie Pitas is published by Ugly Duckling Presse. This is a Book originally written in Spanish. This was published in 2010.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781933254708E12.

There is a strong literary gravity around The history of violets, Marosa Di Giorgio’s Spanish-language work translated by Jeannine Marie Pitas. The book’s center of force is Marosa Di Giorgio’s violet-history, where flowers behave like memory, erotic omen, childhood relic, and supernatural weather, 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 Uruguay, it gives the shelf another angle of approach: not simply what happened there, but how a voice from there can remake English.

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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