Book record
The blind pain
Igor Barreto
Translated from Spanish by Rowena Hill
The blind pain, by Igor Barreto and translated from Spanish by Rowena Hill, gives English-language readers Igor Barreto’s Venezuelan pain-country, where landscape and hurt meet without becoming simple allegory. Published by Tavern Books, it should be approached first as a book of encounter rather than as a biographical assignment. The useful question is not what the poems are supposed to mean in a single solved sentence, but what kind of attention they ask the reader to practice. For this library, the entry matters because it keeps Venezuela in the translated poetry conversation as a living source of image, pressure, and voice.
- Published
- 2019
- Publisher
- Tavern Books
- Language
- Spanish
- Country
- Venezuela
- ISBN
- 9781935635833