Defense of the Idol by Cáceres and translated by Monica de la Torre

This is poetry from Chile.

Defense of the Idol by Cáceres translated by Monica de la Torre is published by Ugly Duckling Presse. This is a Book originally written in Spanish. This was published in 2018.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781946433039E12.

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.

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.