Book record
Chilean Poets
Anthology
Translated from Spanish by Jorge Etcheverry
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.
- Published
- 2011
- Publisher
- Marick Press
- Language
- Spanish
- Country
- Chile
- ISBN
- 9781934851241