Book record
Floating Lanterns
Mercedes Roffé
Translated from Spanish by Anna Deeny
Mercedes Roffé's Floating Lanterns, translated by Anna Deeny, is a work of rhythm, body, and metaphysical drift. Roffé often writes as if the poem is not a container for meaning but a musical field where meaning keeps becoming possible and then moving away. The result is a book that feels both intellectual and sensuous, willing to think through sound, image, breath, and philosophical pressure. Deeny's translation is especially attentive to the poem as music, letting the English carry a pulse rather than merely a paraphrase. I like how Roffé's poems can feel expansive without becoming loose. They are bodily, erotic, cosmic, and formally alert. Floating Lanterns is for readers who want Argentine poetry that moves beyond narrative into cadence, where the poem becomes the rhythm of the other in the self and the self in motion.
- Published
- 2015
- Publisher
- Shearsman Books
- Language
- Spanish
- Country
- Argentina
- ISBN
- 9781848613720