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Translate Into English Bilingual edition by Cellini, Don (2010) Paperback
Poetry. Don Cellini's new work, TRANSLATE INTO ENGLISH, possesses an elegance and integrity rarely found on bookshelves today. Cellini's poems are intelligent and clever while capturing subtle emotions. Each poem in this collection is framed with grammatical instructions from a turn of the century Spanish lesson book. The fine execution of his poetic vignettes--each work, each poem, every page is necessary to the whole. And the whole is a unique and beautiful experience.
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First published June 15, 2010
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March 2, 2018
This astonishing collection of poems deserves to be talked about in the same breath as books like Tickets for a Prayer Wheel or The Secret History of Billy the Kid. These small, paragraph sized prose poems are all inspired by sentences collected out of Spanish grammar book from 1902. Don Cellini sources musical, unusual, and anachronistic sentences from the grammar guide and crafted sensuous, romantic, and sometimes breathtaking poetry. It's a fine collection of 'found' poetry. Highly, highly recommended.
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