Witness by Mario Benedetti and translated by Louise B. Popkin

This is poetry from Uruguay.

Witness by Mario Benedetti translated by Louise B. Popkin is published by White Pine Press. This is a Book originally written in Spanish. This was published in 2012.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781935210313E12.

Witness, by Mario Benedetti, is a Spanish poetry collection from Uruguay, translated by Louise B. Popkin, published by White Pine Press in 2012. It is a Uruguayan collection by Mario Benedetti, a poet whose work often joins civic feeling, exile, tenderness, and ordinary speech. The title gives the book its ethical charge: to witness is not only to observe, but to remain answerable to the lives and losses language carries. I would not approach it as a book that needs to be solved before it can be felt. 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 Uruguay; 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.

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