the Infinite Loop / Lazo Infinito by Oneyda González and translated by Lourdes Vázquez, Eduardo Aparicio

This is poetry from Cuba.

the Infinite Loop / Lazo Infinito by Oneyda González translated by Lourdes Vázquez, Eduardo Aparicio is published by Akashic Books. This is a Book originally written in Spanish. This was published in 2023.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781636141435E12.

the Infinite Loop / Lazo Infinito, by Oneyda González, is a Spanish poetry collection from Cuba, translated by Lourdes Vázquez, Eduardo Aparicio, published by Akashic Books in 2023. It is a bilingual Cuban book drawn toward repetition, return, and the strange circularity of thought. The loop here feels less like a trap than a form of lyric persistence, a way of asking what memory does when it cannot arrive at an ending. I would not approach it as a book that needs to be solved before it can begin working. Start with the title, the pressure of the translated line, and the feeling of a voice making room for itself in English. The value here is not just metadata or representation. It is the chance to let a particular book create its own weather, its own difficulty, and its own way of asking the reader to listen.

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