Book record
Rain of the future
Valerie Mejer Caso
Translated from Spanish by Forrest Gander
Rain of the future, by Valerie Mejer Caso, is a Spanish poetry collection from Mexico, translated by Forrest Gander, published by Action Books in 2014. It is a Mexican collection where future weather becomes prophecy, grief, and sensory pressure. Mejer Caso's poems, in Forrest Gander's translation, invite the reader to feel time as atmosphere rather than chronology. 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
- 2014
- Publisher
- Action Books
- Language
- Spanish
- Country
- Mexico
- ISBN
- 9780989804806