Book record
Art of Keeping Quiet
Rodolfo Alonso
Translated from Spanish by Katherine M. Hedeen, Víctor Rodríguez-Núñez
Art of Keeping Quiet, by Rodolfo Alonso, is a Spanish poetry collection from Argentina, translated by Katherine M. Hedeen, Víctor Rodríguez-Núñez, published by Salt Publishing in 2015. It is an Argentine collection where silence appears as craft, temperament, and moral pressure. Alonso's poems suggest that quiet is not vacancy; it is a made thing, a discipline, and sometimes the sharpest form of speech. I would not approach it as a book that needs to be solved or reduced to context before it can begin working. Start with the pressure of the title, the texture of the translated line, and the feeling of a voice making room for itself in English. For this library, the book matters as more than a record of Argentina; it is an invitation to let poetry remain particular, difficult, and alive without asking it to behave like explanation.
- Published
- 2015
- Publisher
- Salt Publishing
- Language
- Spanish
- Country
- Argentina
- ISBN
- 9781784630331