Everything I kept by Ruth Behar and translated by Ruth Behar

This is poetry from Cuba.

Everything I kept by Ruth Behar translated by Ruth Behar is published by Swan Isle Press. This is a Book originally written in Spanish. This was published in 2018.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780997228724E12.

Everything I kept, by Ruth Behar, is a Spanish poetry collection from Cuba, translated by Ruth Behar, published by Swan Isle Press in 2018. It is a Cuban collection shaped by memory, migration, and the tender archive of what a person refuses to lose. Behar’s self-translation gives the book a doubled intimacy, as though the poems are carrying their belongings across language by hand. 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.

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.