Book of the Cold by Antonio Gamoneda and translated by Katherine Hedeen, Víctor Rodríguez Núñez

This is poetry from Spain.

Book of the Cold by Antonio Gamoneda translated by Katherine Hedeen, Víctor Rodríguez Núñez is published by World Poetry Books. This is a Book originally written in Spanish. This was published in 2022.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781954218031E12.

Book of the Cold, by Antonio Gamoneda, is a Spanish poetry collection from Spain, translated by Katherine Hedeen, Víctor Rodríguez Núñez, published by World Poetry Books in 2022. It is a Spanish collection by Antonio Gamoneda, one of the major late modern voices of Spanish poetry. The book’s cold is existential, bodily, and historical, a climate of memory where austerity becomes a form of music. 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 Spain; it is an invitation to let poetry remain particular, difficult, and alive without asking it to behave like explanation.

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.