Book record
Defense of the Idol
Cáceres
Translated from Spanish by Monica de la Torre
Defense of the Idol, by Cáceres, is a Spanish poetry collection from Chile, translated by Monica de la Torre, published by Ugly Duckling Presse in 2018. It is a Chilean collection associated with avant-garde inheritance, image, and cultural fracture. The book feels built for readers who want poetry to stage an argument with worship, artifice, and the strange authority of images. 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
- 2018
- Publisher
- Ugly Duckling Presse
- Language
- Spanish
- Country
- Chile
- ISBN
- 9781946433039