Noel, Urayoàn

Transversal: Poems (Camino del Sol)

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ISBN 13:: 9780816541805
author:: Noel, Urayoàn
format:: Paperback / softback
publisher:: University of Arizona Press
language:: Spanish
Publication Year:: 2021
Pages:: 128
Dimensions:: 22.4 x 17.5 x 0.8 centimeters (0
Genre:: Poetry, Caribbean & Latin American, Poetry,
Condition:: New
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Urayoán Noel's Transversal Poems offers a fresh approach to poetic translation, blurring the lines between languages and cultures. This collection explores the poet's native Puerto Rico and the broader Caribbean as sites of transversal poetics and politics. Noel's bilingual playfulness and irreverent political imagination shine through in this work, which features poems improvised on a smartphone, remixed classical forms, and interlocking bilingual versions that complicate the relationship between translation and original. The book creatively examines the urgency and impossibility of translation in a time of global crisis, celebrating the nonequivalence between languages. Inspired by Caribbean poet and philosopher Édouard Glissant, Transversal Poems celebrates creolization as a maximalist, people-centered response to austerity politics. This groundbreaking approach to poetic translation opens up alternative ways of reading in any language.

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