Book record
Hatchet / Hamartia
Carmen Boullosa
Translated from Spanish by Lawrence Schimel
Hatchet / Hamartia, by Carmen Boullosa, is a Spanish poetry collection from Mexico, translated by Lawrence Schimel, published by White Pine Press in 2020. It is a Mexican collection by Carmen Boullosa that places weapon and tragic flaw side by side. The slash in the title feels important: not an either-or, but a cut between violence, error, fate, and theatrical self-knowledge. 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.
- Published
- 2020
- Publisher
- White Pine Press
- Language
- Spanish
- Country
- Mexico
- ISBN
- 9781945680397