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Dream Pattering Soles
Miguelángel Meza
Translated from Guarani by Elisa Taber
Dream Pattering Soles, by Miguelángel Meza and translated by Elisa Taber from Guarani, brings Guarani-language poetry from Paraguay into English through Guarani sound, Indigenous language presence, and a dream-logic carried into English without losing its ground. The metadata gives the reader a doorway, but the real value is what happens once the poem starts making its own weather. I would read it for dream, soles, earth, and the bodily feeling of language walking between worlds, not as a fixed lesson about Paraguay. The best entry point is still the poem itself: the line that catches, the image that refuses to explain itself, the feeling that arrives before paraphrase. Dream Pattering Soles belongs in the translated poetry library because it broadens the library beyond European-language inheritance into Indigenous South American lyric.
- Published
- 2021
- Publisher
- Ugly Duckling Presse
- Language
- Guarani
- Country
- Paraguay
- ISBN
- 9781946433879