Book record
Outside Texts
Eleonora Requena
Translated from Spanish by Guillermo Parra
Outside Texts, by Eleonora Requena and translated from Spanish by Guillermo Parra, gives English-language readers Eleonora Requena’s outside texts, where the title itself suggests marginal speech, documents from elsewhere, and a poetics built at the edge. Published by Ugly Duckling Presse, it should be approached first as a book of encounter rather than as a biographical assignment. The useful question is not what the poems are supposed to mean in a single solved sentence, but what kind of attention they ask the reader to practice. For this library, the entry matters because it keeps Venezuela in the translated poetry conversation as a living source of image, pressure, and voice.
- Published
- 2022
- Publisher
- Ugly Duckling Presse
- Language
- Spanish
- Country
- Venezuela
- ISBN
- 9781946604132