Description
At the heart of Repetition Nineteen are twenty-five unreliable translations of a poem in M nica de la Torre's first book, written in Spanish. She embarked on this new genre-defying project after realizing she had been living in New York for as long as she had lived in Mexico City, where she was born. The works here focus on translation as displacement, mediation, and a form of code-switching. In the latter half of the book, "Replay," we get a glimpse of de la Torre's translation practice in action as she invites passers-by to participate in series of translation experiments during an artist residency in Madison Square Park. Given the nativism of our current climate, both halves of Repetition Nineteen celebrate translation's possibilities and political relevancy.
Author: Monica de la Torre
Publisher: Nightboat Books
Published: 03/31/2020
Pages: 144
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.98w x 0.79d
ISBN13: 9781643620145
ISBN10: 1643620142
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | Women Authors
- Poetry | Caribbean & Latin American
- Poetry | American | Hispanic & Latino
About the Author
Mónica de la Torre works with and between languages. Her latest book, The Happy End/All Welcome, was published by Ugly Duckling Presse, which also put out her translation of Defense of the Idol by Chilean modernist Omar Cáceres in 2018. Born and raised in Mexico City, she is a contributing editor to BOMB Magazine. Recent writing appears in Artforum, A Public Space, and The Literary Review. She has taught at Columbia and Brown University and now teaches poetry at Brooklyn College.