Book record
Poetics of wonder
Alberto Ruy Sánchez
Translated from Spanish by Rhonda Dahl Buchanan
Alberto Ruy Sánchez’s Poetics of wonder, translated by Rhonda Dahl Buchanan, sounds like a book that wants to defend astonishment without making it sentimental. The title suggests a work of poetic thinking as much as a conventional collection, something interested in wonder as craft, perception, and spiritual posture. Coming from Mexican Spanish into English through White Pine Press, the book sits comfortably inside a tradition of world literature that treats the essayistic and the lyric as companion forms. I would read it as a reminder that wonder is not naïveté. It is one of the harder disciplines available to a reader. Buchanan’s translation gives that discipline a new language, inviting attention to how thought becomes texture, and how the act of looking can become an ethics.
- Published
- 2014
- Publisher
- White Pine Press
- Language
- Spanish
- Country
- Mexico
- ISBN
- 9781935210559