{"product_id":"the-belly-of-the-whale-bilingual-edition-hardcover","title":"The Belly of the Whale: Bilingual Edition - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eClaudia Prado\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eRebecca Gayle Howell\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this South American epic, poet Claudia Prado imagines her ancestors' nineteenth-century migration from the Basque Country into Argentina and, ultimately, southward into the oceanic desert. At its original publication in 2000, \u003ci\u003eEl interior de la ballena\u003c\/i\u003e received Argentina's National Fund for the Arts prize, helping usher in a poetics of Patagonia. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrado's poetry honors her homeland's wide open desert and its ancient silences, offering a vision that braids intergenerational migrations into a chorus of monologues and intimate voices, all looking for home. Here speaks a woman who, against her will, is taken to that desert; here is revealed the thoughts of an orphan laborer; here, a chicken thief celebrates his sad prize. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eEl interior de la ballena\u003c\/i\u003e, Prado uses her page to privilege the often unseen and unheard, composing in silence as much as sound. When read together, the poems quilt a place, time, and lineage through a story of strong women, wounded and wounding men, and a rural and unforgiving landscape from which hardscrabble labor is the origin of survival. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eEl interior de la ballena The belly of the whale\u003c\/i\u003e is now rendered into English for the first time by award-winning poet and translator Rebecca Gayle Howell. In this completely bilingual edition, readers of either language can immerse themselves in Prado's Patagonia, as well as this unique collaboration between Prado and Howell that begs us to ask if language itself is our endless migration.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 108\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.7 x 5.7 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 15, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53335558291821,"sku":"9781682832059","price":33.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1001\/0823\/9213\/files\/U9gjpV3Y3g9781682832059.webp?v=1778900612","url":"https:\/\/cleanfreaklab.myshopify.com\/products\/the-belly-of-the-whale-bilingual-edition-hardcover","provider":"Clean Freak Lab","version":"1.0","type":"link"}