Book record
Journal with no subject
Juan Calzadilla
Translated from Spanish by Katherine M. Hedeen
Reading Journal with no subject as part of this translated poetry project means letting Juan Calzadilla’s work reach English through Katherine Hedeen without requiring it to become immediately familiar. The book suggests Juan Calzadilla’s subjectless journal, a Venezuelan book that turns record-keeping into drift, refusal, and a poetics of attention without stable center. That matters because translation is not only a recovery of content; it is also a change in atmosphere, a new body for cadence, silence, and pressure. Published by Salt Publishing, this entry gives readers a way to move through Venezuela by way of language rather than tourism. I would keep the description rooted in feeling, image, and readerly permission.
- Published
- 2009
- Publisher
- Salt Publishing
- Language
- Spanish
- Country
- Venezuela
- ISBN
- 9781844714667