yezhik's review
2.0
Agosin is a more of a poet than a traveler. I guess her argument is that a poet is a traveler. I know for a fact that this is not always the case.
She wants to take us through the dirt roads of a Chilean village to spy on Neruda or along the canals of Venice to the old ghetto. Her language is always trying to illuminate not only places but their history.
She ends up reminding me of Annie Lennox in a certain Eurythmics video where she wanders around the riverside with a gigantic lantern and gets rained on in bed.
Agosin holds her lantern to absolutely everything. Obliterating borders and street names with its light. The book is either luminous or unbearable. Probably both.
She wants to take us through the dirt roads of a Chilean village to spy on Neruda or along the canals of Venice to the old ghetto. Her language is always trying to illuminate not only places but their history.
She ends up reminding me of Annie Lennox in a certain Eurythmics video where she wanders around the riverside with a gigantic lantern and gets rained on in bed.
Agosin holds her lantern to absolutely everything. Obliterating borders and street names with its light. The book is either luminous or unbearable. Probably both.
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