The Sea Needs No Ornament/ El mar no necesita ornamento
A bilingual anthology of contemporary poetry by women writers of the English and Spanish-speaking Caribbean
Loretta Collins Klobah editor Maria Grau Perejoan editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Peepal Tree Press Ltd
Published:18th Jun '20
£14.99
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The Sea Needs No Ornament/ El mar no necesita ornamento is the first bilingual anthology of contemporary poetry by women writers of the English and Spanish-speaking Caribbean and its diasporas to be curated in more than two decades. The anthology presents a selection of work by poets from Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, and from various Anglophone Caribbean islands and the Diaspora. Each poem is presented first in the original, followed by the translation. Excitingly, the majority of poets have not yet been widely translated or included in a bilingual anthology of this scope.
“This book gives us some of the most passionate and insightful writing around, in any language… as I look at the translated voices here I am both moved and transformed by the ways they seem to address the devastation of the present moment… Spanish-speaking poets are presented with wonderful English-language poets. The result is a first-rate conversation between poetics, a marvel.”
Ilya Kaminsky.
- Winner of Poetry Book Society Recommendation 2020 (UK)
ISBN: 9781845234737
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397 pages