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The Sound of Poetry and the Polis: Translation and Noise in María Salgado’s Hacía un ruido

Abstract María Salgado’s Hacía un ruido: frases para un film político (2016) was advertised as being linked to the global protests triggered by the early twenty-first-century financial and socio-political crisis. Critics read it as being endowed with referential and representational clarity, as well as an identifiable sense of political dissent. Yet references to politics in this poetry book are obfuscated by a translation that points to a textual limit to political representation. Hacía un ruido can be read as being informed by a poetics of translation that invites long-standing questions about the location of poetry vis-à-vis the language of the polis.