Chilean Poets by Anthology and translated by Jorge Etcheverry

This is poetry from Chile.

Chilean Poets by Anthology translated by Jorge Etcheverry is published by Marick Press. This is a Book originally written in Spanish. This was published in 2011.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781934851241E12.

Chilean Poets is an anthology of Spanish poetry, translated by Jorge Etcheverry, published by Marick Press in 2011. It is an anthology of Chilean poetry that gives English-language readers a collective view into a major Spanish-language tradition. Its value is breadth: not one definitive Chile, but many poetics of landscape, politics, exile, experiment, and lyric force. 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 Chile; 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.