Antigona Gonzalez by Sara Uribe and translated by John Pluecker

This is poetry from Mexico.

Antigona Gonzalez by Sara Uribe translated by John Pluecker is published by Les Figues Press. This is a Book originally written in Spanish. This was published in 2016.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781934254646E12.

Sara Uribe’s Antígona González, translated by John Pluecker, is one of the crucial contemporary Mexican poetry entries in this batch. The book reworks Antigone through the context of disappearance, violence, and the search for the dead in Mexico. It is a documentary, lyric, and ethical work, but I would avoid describing it as important in a way that makes it sound distant. Its force is immediate. It asks what a sister, a citizen, a reader, or a language can do when bodies are made missing and grief is forced to become public labor. Pluecker’s translation carries that pressure into English. This is poetry as mourning, archive, and refusal.

If you’d like to see international poetry continue and gain traction, consider requesting this work from your local library, or purchasing it from places like Open Books (a poetry only bookstore), Asterism Books (an independent press distributor), or bookshop.org to connect you with your local bookstores.

Check out more of the always in-progress translated poetry index here.