Delicious descriptions: Ida Vitale and Byobu on literature and humanity

March 12, 2022 / Whispering Gums / 4 Comments

I couldn't include in my recent post on Ida Vitale's Byobu all the ideas that grabbed my attention. It's impressive how such 85-page book could contain so much, more than I can even include here. However, I do want to share (document) a few more ideas here, for my own benefit at least, before I … Continue reading Delicious descriptions: Ida Vitale and Byobu on literature and humanity

Ida Vitale, Byobu (#BookReview)

March 2, 2022March 3, 2022 / Whispering Gums / 15 Comments

Uruguayan writer Ida Vitale's Byobu was my reading group's second book of the year. Originally published in Spanish in 2018, with the English translation released in 2021, Byobu is Vitale's first book of prose to be translated into English. Few, if any of us, had heard of her - and yet, this now 98-year-old woman … Continue reading Ida Vitale, Byobu (#BookReview)