Book record
Garden of Silica
Ida Vitale
Translated from Spanish by Katherine M. Hedeen, Víctor Rodríguez-Núñez
Garden of Silica, by Ida Vitale, is a Spanish poetry collection from Uruguay, translated by Katherine M. Hedeen, Víctor Rodríguez-Núñez, published by Salt Publishing in 2010. It is a Uruguayan collection by Ida Vitale where botanical attention and mineral clarity meet. The poems reward readers who like precision, not as coldness, but as a way of honoring the exact strangeness of plants, surfaces, perceptions, and thought. I would not approach it as a book that needs to be solved before it can be felt. 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 Uruguay; it is an invitation to let poetry remain particular, difficult, and alive without asking it to behave like explanation.
- Published
- 2010
- Publisher
- Salt Publishing
- Language
- Spanish
- Country
- Uruguay
- ISBN
- 9781844714650