Description
Nightboat Books, paperback
Publication Date: March 31, 2020
Publisher Marketing: At the heart ofRepetition Nineteenare twenty-five unreliable translations of a poem in Mnica 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 passersby to participate in series of translation experiments during an artist residency in Madison Square Park. Given the nativism of our current climate, both halves ofRepetition Nineteencelebrate translation’s possibilities and political relevancy.
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