Book record
5 meters of poems5 metros de poemas
Carlos Oquendo de Amat
Translated from Spanish by Alejando de Acosta
Carlos Oquendo de Amat’s 5 meters of poems / 5 metros de poemas, translated by Alejandro de Acosta, is a landmark of Peruvian avant-garde imagination and one of those books whose physical idea is inseparable from its poetry. The title is not metaphor alone. It suggests measure, unfolding, extension, poem as object and performance. Ugly Duckling Presse is exactly the kind of home where such a work can be treated not merely as a recovered artifact, but as a living experiment in how a book can move. De Acosta’s translation opens that formal play to English-language readers while preserving the work’s sense of speed and invention. I would read it as cinema, street, architecture, and lyric all at once, a little machine for changing how a page behaves.
- Published
- 2010
- Publisher
- Ugly Duckling Presse
- Language
- Spanish
- Country
- Peru
- ISBN
- 9781933254593