Book record
Chintungo
Soledad Marambio
Translated from Spanish by K.T. Billey
Soledad Marambio's Chintungo, translated by K.T. Billey, is a Chilean book of place, return, and uneasy belonging. The title points toward a specific locality, but the poem's work is not merely geographic. Place becomes a way of thinking about memory, class, speech, family, land, and the difficulty of arriving anywhere without bringing history along. Billey's translation gives the English a measured, attentive quality, allowing the book's local textures to remain present without reducing them to scenery. I like poetry that understands place as more than backdrop. A place can be an argument, a wound, a joke, a beloved, a pressure system. Chintungo seems to move in that awareness. It is a book for readers interested in contemporary Chilean poetry that feels grounded, reflective, and alert to the politics hidden inside the ordinary act of naming where one is from.
- Published
- 2017
- Publisher
- Ugly Duckling Presse
- Language
- Spanish
- Country
- Chile
- ISBN
- 9781946433084