Book record
A hotel with my name
Cecilia Pavón
Translated from Spanish by Jacob Steinberg
Cecilia Pavón's A Hotel with My Name, translated by Jacob Steinberg, brings Argentine poetry into a more casual, contemporary, and disarmingly social register. Pavón is often associated with a kind of art-world immediacy, where friendship, city life, pop feeling, romance, boredom, and small weirdnesses become available to the poem without needing to dress themselves up as grand subjects. That looseness is part of the intelligence. The book feels interested in how life actually appears to a person moving through it: distracted, funny, vulnerable, slightly theatrical, and full of unfinished intimacies. Steinberg's translation keeps the directness alive. I would not read this book looking for monumentality. I would read it for its atmosphere of lived speech, its charm, and its willingness to let contemporary feeling stay contemporary. The hotel is less a place than a temporary self one checks into.
- Published
- 2015
- Publisher
- Scrambler Books
- Language
- Spanish
- Country
- Argentina
- ISBN
- 9780578156866