Book record
The Desert
María do Cebreiro
Translated from Galician by Keith Payne
The Desert, by María do Cebreiro, is a poetry collection from Spain, translated by Keith Payne, published by Shearsman Books. It is a Galician collection where emptiness, exposure, and inner weather become forms of lyric attention. María do Cebreiro's title is spare enough to become expansive: desert as place, condition, body, and the silence a poem has to cross. I would read this first for the pressure of image and cadence rather than as a puzzle waiting for its correct answer. The useful description for a book like this should give the reader a door, not a lecture: enough context to orient the shelf, then enough mystery to let the poems keep their own weather. For this library, the book matters as more than a representative entry from Spain. It shows how poetry in translation can carry local speech, private intensity, and literary history into English without becoming merely informational.
- Publisher
- Shearsman Books
- Language
- Galician
- Country
- Spain