Book record
Blue coyote with guitar
Juan Bañuelos
Translated from Spanish by Katherine M. Hedeen
Blue coyote with guitar, by Juan Bañuelos, is a Spanish poetry collection from Mexico, translated by Katherine M. Hedeen, published by Salt in 2010. It is a Mexican collection with the folkloric charge of a trickster carrying music through the desert night. Bañuelos's title alone gives the book a mythic, wandering pulse, inviting the reader to listen for song where animal, border, and human voice overlap. I would not approach it as a book that needs to be solved before it can begin working. Start with the title, the pressure of the translated line, and the feeling of a voice making room for itself in English. The value here is not just metadata or representation. It is the chance to let a particular book create its own weather, its own difficulty, and its own way of asking the reader to listen.
- Published
- 2010
- Publisher
- Salt
- Language
- Spanish
- Country
- Mexico
- ISBN
- 9781844715206