Treasure of the Castilian or Spanish Language by Sebastian de Covarrubias Horozco and translated by Janet Hendrickson

This is poetry from Spain.

Treasure of the Castilian or Spanish Language by Sebastian de Covarrubias Horozco translated by Janet Hendrickson is published by Norton & Company Limited, W. W.. This is a Book originally written in Spanish. This was published in 2019.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780811228602E12.

Treasure of the Castilian or Spanish Language, by Sebastian de Covarrubias Horozco, is a Spanish poetry collection from Spain, translated by Janet Hendrickson, published by Norton & Company Limited, W. W. in 2019. It is a translated early modern Spanish lexicographic work that belongs beside poetry because it reveals language as archive. Hendrickson’s translation makes a historical dictionary feel like a cabinet of meanings, etymologies, cultural obsessions, and verbal weather. I would not approach it as a book that needs to be solved or reduced to context before it can begin working. Start with the pressure of the title, the texture of the translated line, and the feeling of a voice making room for itself in English. For this library, the book matters as more than a record of Spain; it is an invitation to let poetry remain particular, difficult, and alive without asking it to behave like explanation.

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.

Check out more of the always in-progress translated poetry index here.