Book record
Witness
Mario Benedetti
Translated from Spanish by Louise B. Popkin
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.
- Published
- 2012
- Publisher
- White Pine Press
- Language
- Spanish
- Country
- Uruguay
- ISBN
- 9781935210313