Book record
Luna Park
Luis Cardoza y Aragón
Translated from Spanish by Alan Mills, Daniel Godínez-Nivón, Anthony Seidman
Luna Park, by Luis Cardoza y Aragón, is a Spanish poetry collection from Guatemala, translated by Alan Mills, Daniel Godínez-Nivón, Anthony Seidman, published by Cardboard House Press in 2016. It is a Guatemalan collection by Luis Cardoza y Aragón that carries the charged glamour of amusement, spectacle, and modernist drift. The title feels bright at first, but the poems suggest a fairground of perception where the lights can turn uncanny without warning. I would not approach it as a book that needs to be solved before it can begin working. Start with the title, the pressure of the translated line, and the feeling of a voice making room for itself in English. The value here is not just metadata or representation. It is the chance to let a particular book create its own weather, its own difficulty, and its own way of asking the reader to listen.
- Published
- 2016
- Publisher
- Cardboard House Press
- Language
- Spanish
- Country
- Guatemala
- ISBN
- 9781945720901