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The school of solitude
Luis Hernández
Translated from Spanish by Anthony Guest
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.
- Published
- 2015
- Publisher
- Swan Isle Press
- Language
- Spanish
- Country
- Peru
- ISBN
- 9780983322061