The Other Island of the Songs by Maria Eugenia Vaz Ferreira and translated by William Blair

This is poetry from Uruguay.

The Other Island of the Songs by Maria Eugenia Vaz Ferreira translated by William Blair is published by Song Bridge Press. This is a Book originally written in Spanish. This was published in 2013.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780692697207E12.

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.

If you’d like to see international poetry continue and gain traction, consider requesting this work from your local library, or purchasing it from places like Open Books (a poetry only bookstore), Asterism Books (an independent press distributor), or bookshop.org to connect you with your local bookstores.

Check out more of the always in-progress translated poetry index here.