Unica Looking at the Sea by Fernando Contreras Castro and translated by Elaine Brooks

This is poetry from Costa Rica.

Unica Looking at the Sea by Fernando Contreras Castro translated by Elaine Brooks is published by Diálogos. This is a Book originally written in Spanish. This was published in 2018.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781944884291E12.

Unica Looking at the Sea arrives in this batch as a Costa Rica entry translated from Spanish by Elaine Brooks, and its title already opens a useful path into the book. I read it through a Costa Rican work whose title already leans toward fable, sea-light, and the strange dignity of looking from the margins. 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 Diálogos, 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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