Book record
Theory of the Voice and Dream
Liliana Ponce
Translated from French by Michael Martin Shea
Theory of the Voice and Dream, by Liliana Ponce, is a French poetry collection from France, translated by Michael Martin Shea, published by World Poetry Books. It is a French collection by Liliana Ponce that brings voice and dream into something like a speculative lyric system. The title suggests that speech and dream are not opposites, but two ways the self tests what can be heard. I would not approach it as a book that needs to be solved before it can begin working. Start with the title, the pressure of the translated line, and the feeling of a voice making room for itself in English. The value here is not just metadata or representation. It is the chance to let a particular book create its own weather, its own difficulty, and its own way of asking the reader to listen.
- Publisher
- World Poetry Books
- Language
- French
- Country
- France