Cold Fire by Verónica Zondek and translated by Katherine Silver

This is poetry from Chile.

Cold Fire by Verónica Zondek translated by Katherine Silver 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 9.781954218987E12.

Cold Fire, by Verónica Zondek, is a Spanish poetry collection from Chile, translated by Katherine Silver, published by World Poetry Books in 2022. It is a Chilean collection whose title holds contradiction at its center. Zondek’s poems are alive to the way feeling can burn and freeze at once, especially when history and private perception occupy the same body. 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.