Book record
Elegy for Joseph Cornell
María Negroni
Translated from Spanish by Allison A. DeFreese
Elegy for Joseph Cornell, by María Negroni, is a Spanish poetry collection from Argentina, translated by Allison A. deFreese, published by Dalkey Archive Press in 2020. It is an Argentine collection in conversation with Joseph Cornell's boxes, assemblages, and dreamlike poetics of arrangement. Negroni's poems feel like cabinets of longing, where art history, grief, and miniature mystery become one elaborate interior room. 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 Argentina; it is an invitation to let poetry remain particular, difficult, and alive without asking it to behave like explanation.
- Published
- 2020
- Publisher
- Dalkey Archive
- Language
- Spanish
- Country
- Argentina
- ISBN
- 9781628973624