This Blue Novel by Valerie Mejer Caso and translated by Michelle Gil-Montero

This is poetry from Mexico.

This Blue Novel by Valerie Mejer Caso translated by Michelle Gil-Montero is published by Action Books. This is a Book originally written in Spanish. This was published in 2015.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780989804875E12.

Valerie Mejer Caso’s This Blue Novel, translated by Michelle Gil-Montero, has the aura of a cross-genre lyric object. The title promises a novel, but filtered through color, mood, and poetic concentration. Blue is never only blue in a book like this. It can be atmosphere, grief, distance, water, bruising, or the strange calm that arrives after intensity. Mejer Caso’s work often feels visually and emotionally saturated, and Action Books is the right kind of press for poetry that wants image to become almost tactile. Gil-Montero’s translation gives English-language readers access to that dense color field without forcing it into ordinary narrative. I would read this book for its drift, its painterly intelligence, and its willingness to make form feel like weather.

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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