Book record
Like the Rains Come
Mercedes Roffé
Translated from Spanish by Janet Greenberg
Mercedes Roffé's Like the Rains Come, translated by Janet Greenberg, is a book of movement, return, and lyric weather. Roffé's poems often unfold through rhythm rather than plot, asking the reader to listen for the pressure of a voice thinking through image, music, body, and metaphysical relation. Rain is a useful figure for this work because it suggests arrival without argument. The poem comes down, gathers, disperses, and changes the atmosphere. Greenberg's translation allows that movement to remain fluid while giving the English a tactile presence. For readers drawn to Argentine poetry that works through cadence and philosophical sensuality, this book offers a sustained field of attention. It does not need to explain itself at every turn. It asks the reader to stand inside the weather and notice what starts to sound different.
- Published
- 2008
- Publisher
- Shearsman Books
- Language
- Spanish
- Country
- Argentina
- ISBN
- 9781905700554