Book record
Reasons for writing poetry
Eduardo Chirinos Arrieta
Translated from Spanish by G. J. Racz
Reasons for writing poetry, by Eduardo Chirinos Arrieta, is a Spanish poetry collection from Peru, translated by G. J. Racz, published by Salt Publishing in 2011. It is a Peruvian collection by Eduardo Chirinos that turns ars poetica into inquiry rather than conclusion. The book is useful because it asks the basic question without embarrassment: what compels a poem to exist, and what does writing keep open? I would not approach it as a book that needs to be solved or reduced to context before it can begin working. Start with the pressure of the title, the texture of the translated line, and the feeling of a voice making room for itself in English. For this library, the book matters as more than a record of Peru; it is an invitation to let poetry remain particular, difficult, and alive without asking it to behave like explanation.
- Published
- 2011
- Publisher
- Salt Publishing
- Language
- Spanish
- Country
- Peru
- ISBN
- 9781844715213