Book record
Night
Ennio Moltedo
Translated from Spanish by Marguerite Feitlowitz
Ennio Moltedo's Night, translated by Marguerite Feitlowitz, is a Chilean book of darkness, observation, and compressed civic feeling. Night in poetry can become too easy a symbol, but Moltedo's title suggests less a decorative mood than a condition of looking. The world changes at night. Objects lose their certainty. Political and private anxieties deepen. Thought becomes more exposed. Feitlowitz's translation gives the English a clear and careful surface, allowing the poems' understated pressure to accumulate. I like books that trust darkness without over-romanticizing it. Night can be fear, rest, secrecy, grief, or simply the time when perception stops pretending it knows what everything is. Moltedo's work belongs in a translated poetry library as a quieter Chilean counterpoint to the better-known monumental voices, showing how intensity can arrive through restraint.
- Published
- 2022
- Publisher
- World Poetry Books
- Language
- Spanish
- Country
- Chile
- ISBN
- 9780999261361