The school of solitude by Luis Hernández and translated by Anthony Guest

This is poetry from Peru.

The school of solitude by Luis Hernández translated by Anthony Guest is published by Swan Isle Press. This is a Book originally written in Spanish. This was published in 2015.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780983322061E12.

Luis Hernández’s The school of solitude, translated by Anthony Guest, belongs on the shelf as more than a data point from Peru. It carries Luis Hernández’s Peruvian solitude, a school not of withdrawal alone but of oddity, tenderness, and attention as a private discipline. The best entries in a translated poetry library do not merely point to a country, language, or press; they give a reader a reason to linger with the strangeness of another voice. This is the kind of book I would describe through atmosphere first and certainty second. Let the work be partial, difficult, plainspoken, excessive, or mysterious on its own terms before turning it into a lesson.

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