The New World Written by by María Baranda and translated by Paul Hoover

This is poetry from Mexico.

The New World Written by by María Baranda translated by Paul Hoover is published by Yale University Press. This is a Selected originally written in Spanish. This was published in and has the ISBN of .

The New World Written by, by María Baranda, is a Spanish poetry collection from Mexico, translated by Paul Hoover, published by Yale University Press. It is a Mexican selected volume by María Baranda that carries her dreamlike, historical, and elemental imagination into English. Baranda’s poems often move as though the world were being made and unmade in the same breath. 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.

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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