Book record
Stab in the Dark
Gabriel Trujillo Muñoz
Translated from Spanish by Alex Espinoza, Facundo Bernal, Josh Kun, Anthony Seidman
Stab in the Dark, by Gabriel Trujillo Muñoz, is a Spanish poetry collection from Mexico, translated by Alex Espinoza, Facundo Bernal, Josh Kun, Anthony Seidman, published by Los Angeles Review of Books in 2019. It is a Mexican collection with the atmosphere of noir, sudden violence, and uncertain perception. Trujillo Muñoz's title gives the poems a charged darkness, a sense that language is reaching forward without the comfort of full sight. I would not approach it as a book that needs to be solved before it can begin working. Start with the title, the pressure of the translated line, and the feeling of a voice making room for itself in English. The value here is not just metadata or representation. It is the chance to let a particular book create its own weather, its own difficulty, and its own way of asking the reader to listen.
- Published
- 2019
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Review of Books
- Language
- Spanish
- Country
- Mexico
- ISBN
- 9781940660394