Book record
Reading is walking
Gonçalo M. Tavares
Translated from Portuguese by Rhett McNeil
Reading is walking, by Gonçalo M. Tavares, is a Portuguese poetry collection from Portugal, translated by Rhett McNeil, published by Quantum Prose in 2019. It is a Portuguese collection by Gonçalo M. Tavares that makes reading physical, philosophical, and directional. The title captures a readerly truth: meaning often arrives by moving, not by standing over the page demanding obedience. I would read it first for the pressure of the translated line rather than as a puzzle waiting for its correct answer. The best version of a description for a book like this should give the reader a door, not a lecture: a little context, then permission to meet the poem through image, cadence, and affect. For this library, the book matters as more than a representative entry from Portugal. It shows how poetry in translation can carry local weather, private intensity, and literary history into English without becoming merely informational.
- Published
- 2019
- Publisher
- Quantum Prose
- Language
- Portuguese
- Country
- Portugal
- ISBN
- 9780997301427