Save twilight by Julio Cortázar and translated by Stephen Kessler

This is poetry from Argentina.

Save twilight by Julio Cortázar translated by Stephen Kessler is published by City Lights Books. This is a Book originally written in Spanish. This was published in 2016.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780872867093E12.

Julio Cortázar’s Save Twilight, translated by Stephen Kessler, offers the poetry of a writer many readers first meet through fiction, especially the playful and labyrinthine world of his stories and novels. The poems carry some of that same Cortázar intelligence: curious, urban, tender, ironic, and alert to the surreal hinge inside ordinary life. Kessler’s translation gives the work an approachable English while preserving the sense that reality is always one small adjustment away from becoming strange. I like the title because it sounds both impossible and necessary. Twilight cannot be saved, and yet poetry keeps trying to save these transitional lights, these moods between day and night, speech and silence, presence and memory. This book is a good invitation for readers who love Cortázar’s fiction and want to hear how his sensibility changes when the sentence has less room and more pressure.

If you’d like to see international poetry continue and gain traction, consider requesting this work from your local library, or purchasing it from places like Open Books (a poetry only bookstore), Asterism Books (an independent press distributor), or bookshop.org to connect you with your local bookstores.

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