Book record
from a red barn
Víctor Rodríguez Núñez
Translated from Spanish by Katherine M. Hedeen
Víctor Rodríguez Núñez’s from a red barn, translated by Katherine M. Hedeen, brings Cuban Spanish into English through a title that feels rural, painterly, and slightly mysterious. A red barn is an object, a memory, a location, perhaps a stage for departure or return. Rodríguez Núñez’s poetry often moves through landscape, exile, political consciousness, and intimate image, and Hedeen’s long engagement with his work gives the translation a sense of continuity rather than one-off introduction. I would read this book for its groundedness: the way a barn, color, or field might open into larger questions of belonging and displacement. The poems likely trust ordinary places to hold complex histories, and that trust is one of poetry’s oldest and most durable powers.
- Publisher
- CO*IM*PRESS
- Language
- Spanish
- Country
- Cuba