Vice-Royal-ties by Julia Wong Kcomt and translated by Jennifer Shyue

This is poetry from Peru.

Vice-Royal-ties by Julia Wong Kcomt translated by Jennifer Shyue is published by Ugly Duckling Presse. This is a Book originally written in Spanish. This was published in 2021.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781946433855E12.

Vice-Royal-ties, by Julia Wong Kcomt and translated from Spanish by Jennifer Shyue, gives English-language readers Julia Wong Kcomt’s Peruvian-Chinese-inflected lyric field, where inheritance, empire, body, and mischief are allowed to complicate each other. Published by Ugly Duckling Presse, it should be approached first as a book of encounter rather than as a biographical assignment. The useful question is not what the poems are supposed to mean in a single solved sentence, but what kind of attention they ask the reader to practice. For this library, the entry matters because it keeps Peru in the translated poetry conversation as a living source of image, pressure, and voice.

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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