Book record
The virgin mountain
Roberto Echavarren
Translated from Spanish by Donald Wellman
Roberto Echavarren’s The virgin mountain, translated by Donald Wellman, belongs on the shelf as more than a data point from Uruguay. It carries Roberto Echavarren’s mountain of desire and myth, a Uruguayan text that sounds bodily, excessive, and deliberately untamed. The best entries in a translated poetry library do not merely point to a country, language, or press; they give a reader a reason to linger with the strangeness of another voice. This is the kind of book I would describe through atmosphere first and certainty second. Let the work be partial, difficult, plainspoken, excessive, or mysterious on its own terms before turning it into a lesson.
- Published
- 2017
- Publisher
- Dialogos
- Language
- Spanish
- Country
- Uruguay
- ISBN
- 9781944884239