Book record
The Other Island of the Songs
Maria Eugenia Vaz Ferreira
Translated from Spanish by William Blair
The Other Island of the Songs arrives in this batch as a Uruguay entry translated from Spanish by William Blair, and its title already opens a useful path into the book. I read it through María Eugenia Vaz Ferreira’s island-song, an Uruguayan lyric inheritance that feels at once classical, solitary, and haunted by music. That does not mean the book needs to be solved through those three ideas, only that they give a reader somewhere to stand before the language begins moving. What I want from a description here is permission: start with the image, the rhythm, the odd pressure of a phrase. Published by Song Bridge Press, the book widens the library’s sense of what contemporary and modern Spanish-language literature can hold.
- Published
- 2013
- Publisher
- Song Bridge Press
- Language
- Spanish
- Country
- Uruguay
- ISBN
- 9780692697207