Letters from Spain
This limited edition was published to support the Lorca Latinx Poetry Prize. All proceeds from its sale will go to the publication of a bilingual chapbook from an emerging Latinx poet.
Letters from Spain is a sequence of fourteen “letter poems,” its title taken from Joseph Blanco White’s book written two centuries prior. In these poems the speaker pays homage to the letter, a slow spontaneous writing that is now, if not gone, certainly fading. The letters cover a decade and are addressed to whomever picks them up and reads them. Spanish is mixed throughout the piece, more towards the end as the speaker grew more bilingual over time.
By Spencer Reece. Translated into Spanish by Lawrence Schimel. Available exclusively at Four Seasons Books.
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