Vision of the Children of Evil by Miguel Angel Bustos and translated by Lucina Schell

This is poetry from Argentina.

Vision of the Children of Evil by Miguel Angel Bustos translated by Lucina Schell is published by co-im-press. This is a Book originally written in Spanish. This was published in 2018.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781947918023E12.

Miguel Ángel Bustos’s Vision of the Children of Evil, translated by Lucina Schell, is a dark and visionary entry in Argentine poetry. Bustos’s work carries a charged mixture of surrealism, spiritual violence, political shadow, childhood, and prophetic image. The title is almost too intense, but the poems earn that intensity by refusing a mild relation to the world. Evil here is not a decorative gothic mood. It is historical, psychic, and mythic, something seen through the vulnerable and terrifying figure of the child. Schell’s translation keeps the visionary pressure alive while giving the English a readable pulse. I would place this book near readers drawn to poetry that feels like dream, apocalypse, and testimony braided together. Vision of the Children of Evil is difficult in the best sense: not inaccessible, but unwilling to pretend that the imagination is innocent.

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