Winner of the 2024 Griffin Poetry Prize
We are thrilled to announce that Self-Portrait in the Zone of Silence by Homero Aridjis, translated by George McWhirter, has won the Griffin Poetry Prize.
The judges write:
“Self-Portrait in the Zone of Silence brings poet-translator George McWhirter’s adept English to the service of a great world-poet, Homero Aridjis. The book’s enchanting variety of tones and subjects expresses a rounded human being engaged with our total experience, from the familial to the political, from bodily sensations to dream, vision, philosophic thought, and history, from hope to foreboding. A keynote is the sense of a person speaking with us plainly and yet from kinship with a light that bathes, and springs from, each thing.”
