Book record
Silabas de Viento / Syllables of Wind (English and Spanish Edition)
Xanath Caraza
Translated from Spanish by Sandra Kingery
Xánath Caraza’s Silabas de Viento / Syllables of Wind, translated by Sandra Kingery, feels built around the smallest units of speech: syllable, breath, gust, utterance. The bilingual title makes the book’s central movement visible before the poems even begin. This is a poetry of crossing, but not simply crossing between Spanish and English. It suggests a movement between body and air, voice and landscape, memory and motion. Caraza’s work often seems to ask what language can carry when formal explanation is not enough. Kingery’s translation keeps that question open. I would read this book aloud, or at least with an ear toward the page, because its most important meanings may live in the pressure of sound as much as in statement.
- Published
- 2014
- Publisher
- Mammoth
- Language
- Spanish
- Country
- Mexico
- ISBN
- 9781939301789