Vertical Poetry: Last Poems by Roberto Juarroz and translated by Mary Crow

This is poetry from Argentina.

Vertical Poetry: Last Poems by Roberto Juarroz translated by Mary Crow is published by White Pine. This is a Book originally written in Spanish. This was published in 2011.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781935219214E12.

Roberto Juarroz’s Vertical Poetry: Last Poems, translated by Mary Crow, belongs to one of the most singular lifelong projects in modern poetry. Juarroz returned again and again to the idea of vertical poetry: a lyric movement not outward through anecdote, but downward and upward through thought, silence, being, and the strange architecture of perception. These late poems carry the distilled quality of a poet who has spent decades narrowing the instrument. Crow’s translation lets the aphoristic and metaphysical force of the work remain clear without turning it into mere philosophy. I would recommend this to readers who want poetry that thinks, but not in the essayistic sense. Juarroz’s thinking is spatial. It drops a line into the well and listens for the depth. Last Poems feels like a final descent, or a final ascent, depending on how the light catches it.

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