Book record
Image of absence
Jeannette Clariond
Translated from Spanish by Curtis Bauer
Jeannette Clariond’s Image of absence, translated by Curtis Bauer, gives the Mexican section a beautifully paradoxical title. Absence is what is not there, and an image is what allows something to appear. The book likely moves through grief, memory, spirituality, and the visible traces left by what has vanished. Clariond’s work often carries contemplative depth, and Bauer’s translation helps make that quiet pressure available in English. Published by The Word Works, this collection belongs on the shelf as a work of elegiac attention. It asks the reader to look at what cannot fully be seen. That is one of poetry’s great tasks: to make a shape around the missing.
- Published
- 2018
- Publisher
- The Word Works
- Language
- Spanish
- Country
- Mexico
- ISBN
- 9781944585228