Time Without Keys by Ida Vitale and translated by Sarah Pollack

This is poetry from Uruguay.

Time Without Keys by Ida Vitale translated by Sarah Pollack is published by New Directions Publishing Corporation. This is a Book originally written in Spanish. This was published in 2023.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780811231923E12.

Time Without Keys arrives in this batch as a Uruguay entry translated from Spanish by Sarah Pollack, and its title already opens a useful path into the book. I read it through Ida Vitale’s keyless time, where clarity turns toward age, memory, and the strange fact of continuing without easy access. 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 New Directions Publishing Corporation, 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.

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