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Salgado Maranhao
Brazil’s northeast is a dry and ancient land. Little visited, it has come to be known outside the country for producing some of its best writing. Alexis Levitin has given…
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A collection of forty stories drawn from all corners of Brazil: the Amazon, the Northeast, the Central West, and the South, as well as from Brazil’s two dominant cities, Sao…
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The Delight and Distress of Chess
The royal game has the power to make one feel elated or disconsolate. This is true whether one plays serious tournament chess or casual…
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These wildly imaginative poems read like burning transcripts of one possessed with the rare gift of pure poetry
A major bilingual anthology, with English translations by Richard Zenith and Alexis Levitin, introduces the work of 28 Portuguese poets (beginning with Fernando Pessoa and his ‘heteronyms
Portuguese and English translation on facing pages.
In Blood of the Sun, Salgado Maranhao-one of the most celebrated poets in Brazil today-weds the powerfully socio-political to the metaphysical.
Masterfully translated by Alexis Levitin and presented in both…
This study is an examination and analysis of the craft of poetry as seen in the revisions made in the poems from Journey to a War, a travel book written…
Rosa Alice Branco
First published in Portuguese as Gado do Senhor –Title page verso.
Eugenio de Andrade
Award-winning poetry in a bilingual edition, by Portugal’s best-known living poet.
Eugenio De Andrade
Stunning poems by one of Europe’s most famous writers, beautifully presented in a bilingual (Portuguese/English) format.
This collection of poetry by Andrade urges us to experience joy, affirm the life of our senses, and return to our innocent wonder at the beauty and magnificence of the…
Astrid Cabral
Gazing Through Water is a collection of poems by Brazilian writer and environmentalist Astrid Cabral. The poet confronts the personal imprint of time and age on herself and those around…
Georgi Gospodinov
A collection of short stories, which includes a tongue-in-cheek crime/horror story or the Christmas story of a pig, a language game leading to an unexpected epiphany or an inward-looking tale…
