Tobacco dogsPerros de tabaco by Ana Minga and translated by Alexis Levitin

This is poetry from Ecuador.

Tobacco dogsPerros de tabaco by Ana Minga translated by Alexis Levitin is published by Bitter Oleander Press. This is a Book originally written in Spanish. This was published in 2013.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780988352513E12.

Ana Minga’s Tobacco dogs / Perros de tabaco, translated from Spanish by Alexis Levitin, is an Ecuadorian collection whose title is wonderfully earthy and strange. Tobacco brings smoke, labor, ritual, addiction, and colonial history. Dogs bring hunger, loyalty, instinct, street life, and companionship. Together they make a world that feels bodily before it feels symbolic. The bilingual title also matters because it lets the Spanish remain visible, reminding the reader that translation is a relation rather than a replacement. Published by Bitter Oleander Press, the book belongs in the library as a work of sensory density and rural or creaturely imagination, where the poem’s meaning may begin in smell, bark, soil, and breath.

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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