Book record
Suns
Enrique Winter
Translated from Spanish by Ellen Jones
Enrique Winter's Suns, translated by Ellen Jones, suggests multiplicity from the start. Not sun, but suns: plural centers of heat, light, orientation, and possible burning. Winter's contemporary Chilean poetry often works through movement, cosmopolitan perception, intellectual play, and the emotional strangeness of modern life. Jones's translation gives the English a nimble clarity, allowing the poems to move without feeling overburdened. I like the way the title opens a field where illumination is not singular. There are many suns, many sources of gravity, many ways a life can be warmed or scorched. This is a book for readers interested in contemporary poetry that feels alert, mobile, and resistant to the idea that the lyric self has only one center. Suns offers light, but not always comfort. Sometimes a brightness is also a test.
- Published
- 2017
- Publisher
- Cardboard House Press
- Language
- Spanish
- Country
- Chile
- ISBN
- 9781945720079