Book record
Ghost Opera
Mercedes Roffe
Translated from Spanish by Judith Filc
Mercedes Roffé's Ghost Opera, translated by Judith Filc, has a title that announces its own method: spectral, musical, staged somewhere between presence and disappearance. Roffé's work often asks the reader to hear thought rather than simply follow argument, and this book belongs to that mode. Its opera is not necessarily grand in a decorative sense. It is grand because the lyric voice keeps moving through echoes, fragments, ritual gestures, and forms of address that feel both intimate and haunted. Filc's translation carries the theatrical atmosphere without making the book overly ornate. The poems ask for a reader willing to listen to what remains after ordinary sense has thinned. Ghost Opera is a strong fit for those drawn to poetry as ceremony, where music does not explain grief but gives it an architecture in which to keep sounding.
- Published
- 2017
- Publisher
- CO*IM*PRESS
- Language
- Spanish
- Country
- Argentina
- ISBN
- 9780988819986