Your hand, my mouth by Víctor Manuel Mendiola and translated by Jennifer Clement and others

This is poetry from Mexico.

Your hand, my mouth by Víctor Manuel Mendiola translated by Jennifer Clement and others is published by Shearsman Books. This is a Book originally written in Spanish. This was published in 2008.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781905700899E12.

Your hand, my mouth, by Víctor Manuel Mendiola, is a Spanish poetry collection from Mexico, translated by Jennifer Clement and others, published by Shearsman Books in 2008. It is a Mexican collection whose title immediately stages intimacy as touch, speech, and bodily exchange. Mendiola’s poems invite a reader to think of language as contact, not abstraction, and of the lyric as something passed between bodies. I would not approach it as a book that needs to be solved before it can begin working. Start with the title, the pressure of the translated line, and the feeling of a voice making room for itself in English. The value here is not just metadata or representation. It is the chance to let a particular book create its own weather, its own difficulty, and its own way of asking the reader to listen.

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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