Traducir el silencio / Translating Silence by Armando Romero and translated by Manuel Iris

This is poetry from Mexico.

Traducir el silencio / Translating Silence by Armando Romero translated by Manuel Iris is published by ARTEPOETICA PRESS INC. This is a Book originally written in Spanish. This was published in 2018.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781940075587E12.

Traducir el silencio / Translating Silence, by Armando Romero, is a Spanish poetry collection from Mexico, translated by Manuel Iris, published by ARTEPOETICA PRESS INC in 2018. It is a Mexican collection that makes translation itself the metaphor for approaching what resists speech. Romero’s title is almost a poetics: not conquering silence, not explaining it away, but carrying some part of it into another register. 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.

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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