Book record
Donde la luz es violeta
Xanath Caraza
Translated from Spanish by Sandra Kingery
Donde la luz es violeta, by Xanath Caraza, is a Spanish poetry collection from Mexico, translated by Sandra Kingery, published by Mammoth in 2016. It is a Mexican collection whose title places the reader inside a violet zone of light, color, and perception. Caraza's poems are useful for readers drawn to sensory lyric, where place and feeling arrive through chromatic intensity. I would not approach it as a book that needs to be solved before it can begin working. Start with the title, the pressure of the translated line, and the feeling of a voice making room for itself in English. The value here is not just metadata or representation. It is the chance to let a particular book create its own weather, its own difficulty, and its own way of asking the reader to listen.
- Published
- 2016
- Publisher
- Mammoth
- Language
- Spanish
- Country
- Mexico
- ISBN
- 9781939301697