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Invisible DogFabio MorábitoTranslated by Richard Gwyn![]()
Categories: 20th Century, 21st Century, Italian, Mexican, Spanish and Catalan, Translation
Imprint: Carcanet Poetry Publisher: Carcanet Press Available as: Paperback (144 pages) (Due Nov 2024) 9781800174511 £12.99 £11.69
Fabio Morábito is one of Mexico’s best loved and most entertaining contemporary writers, his narratives marked by a humane irony and a philosophical resignation to the vagaries of his society and the irresistible tyrannies of time. Some of his poems make the reader laugh out loud, and Richard Gwyn’s translations are true to the tone and manner of the originals. This is the first collection of his poems to appear in English, putting right a significant omission.
The fifty-four poems in Invisible Dog were selected by the poet and translator in collaboration and draw from his five published collections spread over four decades. Readers enjoy a comprehensive introduction to his work in breadth and depth. His formal and thematic developments illuminate the wider context of modern Latin American writing, its inventive playfulness, its evasion of conventions of ‘national culture’. Morábito’s position as a poet writing in a second language contributes to his unique voice and vision. It is possible in these versions to detect elements of the poet’s ‘foreignness’ in his straightforward lexical choices, which have the effect of making the poems somehow vulnerable, as in ‘Journey to Pátzcuaro’, a sort of allegory for the immigrant experience.
Awards won by Richard Gwyn
Short-listed, 2020 The Premio Valle Inclán Award for Spanish Translation (Impossible Loves)
Praise for Richard Gwyn
'This dual language collection, full of witticisms and lyrical meditations on everyday life, showcases one of the greatest living poets from Latin America... Gwyn's selection, from a poet who's career spans five decades, shows Jaramillo at the height of his powers.'
Leo Boix, The Poetry Review |
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