Killing Plato by Chantal Maillard and translated by Yvette Siegert

This is poetry from Spain.

Killing Plato by Chantal Maillard translated by Yvette Siegert is published by New Directions. This is a Book originally written in Spanish. This was published in 2019.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780811228992E12.

Reading Killing Plato as part of this translated poetry project means letting Chantal Maillard’s work reach English through Yvette Siegert without requiring it to become immediately familiar. The book suggests Chantal Maillard’s philosophical severity, where Plato becomes not a monument but a figure the poem can trouble, wound, or dismantle. 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 New Directions, this entry gives readers a way to move through Spain by way of language rather than tourism. I would keep the description rooted in feeling, image, and readerly permission.

If you’d like to see international poetry continue and gain traction, consider requesting this work from your local library, or purchasing it from places like Open Books (a poetry only bookstore), Asterism Books (an independent press distributor), or bookshop.org to connect you with your local bookstores.

Check out more of the always in-progress translated poetry index here.