Book record
Room in Rome
Jorge Eduardo Eielson
Translated from Spanish by David Shook
There is a strong literary gravity around Room in Rome, Jorge Eduardo Eielson’s Spanish-language work translated by David Shook. The book’s center of force is Jorge Eduardo Eielson’s Rome-facing Peruvian imagination, attentive to exile, art, architecture, and the rooms that language builds around absence, but I would not want to reduce it to theme alone. Poetry like this is often most alive where it refuses to behave as explanation. It lets place, body, history, and sound touch in ways that prose summary can only approximate. As a translated entry from Peru, it gives the shelf another angle of approach: not simply what happened there, but how a voice from there can remake English.
- Published
- 2019
- Publisher
- Cardboard House Press
- Language
- Spanish
- Country
- Peru
- ISBN
- 9781945720185