The World So Often by Luis Garcia Montero and translated by Katherine Hedeen

This is poetry from Spain.

The World So Often by Luis Garcia Montero translated by Katherine Hedeen is published by Salt Publishing. This is a Book originally written in Spanish. This was published in 2013.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781844719037E12.

The World So Often arrives in this batch as a Spain entry translated from Spanish by Katherine Hedeen, and its title already opens a useful path into the book. I read it through Luis García Montero’s everyday Spanish lyric intelligence, where the world keeps appearing through habit, civic life, love, and recognizable rooms. That does not mean the book needs to be solved through those three ideas, only that they give a reader somewhere to stand before the language begins moving. What I want from a description here is permission: start with the image, the rhythm, the odd pressure of a phrase. Published by Salt Publishing, the book widens the library’s sense of what contemporary and modern Spanish-language literature can hold.

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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