In the Stillness of Marble by Teresa Wilms Montt and translated by Jessica Sequeira

This is poetry from Chile.

In the Stillness of Marble by Teresa Wilms Montt translated by Jessica Sequeira is published by Snuggly. This is a Book originally written in Spanish. This was published in 2019.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781943813827E12.

Teresa Wilms Montt’s In the Stillness of Marble, translated by Jessica Sequeira, brings an early twentieth-century Chilean writer into English with all the atmosphere her title promises: cold beauty, memory, silence, and a feeling of emotional life trapped inside hard material. Wilms Montt’s biography has often threatened to overshadow her work, but the poems and prose-poetic fragments deserve to be read for their own intensity. Sequeira’s translation gives English-language readers access to a voice shaped by desire, confinement, aristocratic pressure, rebellion, and melancholy. I like the marble image because it suggests both monument and prison. Something has been preserved, but at a cost. In the Stillness of Marble is a book for readers interested in women modernists, decadent atmospheres, and lyric writing that understands beauty as something almost too heavy to carry.

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