Book record
Soft Matter
Lila Zemborain
Translated from Spanish by Christopher Winks
Lila Zemborain's Soft Matter, translated by Christopher Winks, draws its charge from the border between body and concept. The title borrows the language of material science, but in a poetic context it becomes something more sensuous and unstable: flesh, fluid, texture, vulnerability, and the forms that refuse to stay rigid. Zemborain's poetry often thinks through the body at a large scale, moving between erotic materiality, philosophical inquiry, and cosmic pressure. Winks's translation keeps that density present without making the poems feel overdetermined. I would recommend this to readers interested in experimental lyric that treats matter as alive with thought. Soft Matter is not soft in the sense of weak. It is soft in the sense of responsive, mutable, and difficult to contain. The poems ask what language becomes when it behaves less like stone and more like tissue.
- Published
- 2023
- Publisher
- Quantum Prose
- Language
- Spanish
- Country
- Argentina
- ISBN
- 9780997301472