Book record
Tasks
Víctor Rodríguez Núñez
Translated from Spanish by Katherine M. Hedeen
Tasks, by Víctor Rodríguez Núñez, is a Spanish poetry collection from Cuba, translated by Katherine M. Hedeen, published by Co.im.press in 2016. It is a Cuban collection whose title makes poetry sound practical, almost workmanlike, before the poems complicate that expectation. The book invites a reader to think of the poem as labor: not productivity, but attention applied to pressure, memory, and the materials of daily life. 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
- 2016
- Publisher
- CO*IM*PRESS
- Language
- Spanish
- Country
- Cuba
- ISBN
- 9780988819962