Book record
The Red Song
Melisa Machado
Translated from Spanish by Seth Michelson
Reading The Red Song as part of this translated poetry project means letting Melisa Machado’s work reach English through Seth Michelson without requiring it to become immediately familiar. The book suggests Melisa Machado’s red song, a Uruguayan book whose title suggests blood, sound, heat, and the body’s refusal to stay quiet. That matters because translation is not only a recovery of content; it is also a change in atmosphere, a new body for cadence, silence, and pressure. Published by Action Books, this entry gives readers a way to move through Uruguay by way of language rather than tourism. I would keep the description rooted in feeling, image, and readerly permission.
- Published
- 2018
- Publisher
- Action Books
- Language
- Spanish
- Country
- Uruguay
- ISBN
- 9780900575983