Book record
The Sun of Always
Liliana Ancalao
Translated from Spanish, Mapuche by Seth Michelson
Liliana Ancalao’s The Sun of Always, translated by Seth Michelson from Spanish and Mapuche, is a crucial kind of book for a translated poetry library because it does not simply cross from one national literature into English. It carries Indigenous language, memory, land, and survival into the frame. The title suggests continuity: a sun that has not vanished, even under histories of dispossession and erasure. Ancalao’s poetry should be read with attention to how language itself becomes a site of return and endurance. Michelson’s translation has to move among Spanish, Mapuche, and English without pretending that those crossings are neutral. I would read this as a book of presence, ancestry, and light, where lyric becomes a way to refuse disappearance.
- Publisher
- Eulalia Books
- Language
- Spanish, Mapuche
- Country
- Argentina