The visits and other poems by Mirta Yáñez and translated by Elizabeth Gamble Miller

This is poetry from Cuba.

The visits and other poems by Mirta Yáñez translated by Elizabeth Gamble Miller is published by Cubanabooks. This is a Book originally written in Spanish. This was published in 2017.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781944176112E12.

The visits and other poems, by Mirta Yáñez, is a Spanish poetry collection from Cuba, translated by Elizabeth Gamble Miller, published by Cubanabooks in 2017. It is a Cuban collection organized around arrival, return, and the charged disturbance of another presence entering the room. Yáñez’s title suggests that a visit is never only social; it can be memory, ghost, interruption, or evidence of a life still moving toward us. 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.

Check out more of the always in-progress translated poetry index here.