Book record
Cold Fire
Verónica Zondek
Translated from Spanish by Katherine Silver
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.
- Published
- 2022
- Publisher
- World Poetry Books
- Language
- Spanish
- Country
- Chile
- ISBN
- 9781954218987