Description

Arrowsmith Press is honored to announce the publication of Nidia Hernándezs first collection of poems, The Farewell Light. This bilingual edition leaps effortlessly between the natural world and meditations on culture, family, language, and longing. Hernandezs work moves the reader beyond the realm of the individual poet toward a deeper human understanding: I cried until I was water/ until I was sea/ and I began to swim/ toward the depths. A recent Venezuelan immigrant to America, Hernandez bridges the gulf between her two countries as she laments, What I thought lost/ is in the light of this dawn/ Im not alone/ emptiness is only emptiness/ the sea speaks to me. Hernandezs self-possessed poetic voice reflects her decades of engagement with poetry, across languages and continents, pointing out that, if not understanding each other is the constant/ why should not speaking the same language/ have to be a disaster? Brilliantly rendered from the Spanish by esteemed translator Rowena Hill, The Farewell Light is a debut not to be missed.

Author: Nidia Hern?ndez
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Arrowsmith Press
Published: 05/05/2024
Pages: 158
Weight: 0.53lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.37d
ISBN: 9798987924167
Language: English