Blood of the Sun - Couverture souple

Maranho, Salgado

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1571314539 ISBN 13 : 9781571314536

Editeur : Milkweed Editions, 2012

Synopsis

In Blood of the Sun, Salgado Maranhão--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 Portuguese and English, this collection plunges into the concrete and the conceptual. Butcher shops, sex, and machine guns sit in spirited dialogue with language, absence, and time. Cannibalism offers an opportunity to reflect on random killings and the plight of modern man. The resulting poems are varied as well as unified, brilliantly textured and layered. Maranhão's language sings in forms fixed and free, filled with a jazzlike musicality and fluted rhymes. "In paining me my pain makes me a dean," one poem reads. "Whose vice is claiming virtue as his own. / Am I saint or devil, or in between? / Am I a killer who is yet unknown?"

Sensually provocative, defined by an aesthetic at once traditional and postmodern, Blood of the Sun introduces a thrilling new voice to the English language.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Salgado Maranhão won Brazil's prestigious Prêmio Jabuti in 1999 for his book Mural of the Winds. In addition to nine books of poetry, including The Snake's Fists, The Kiss of the Beast, Tiger's Fur, and the very recent (2010) Collected Poetry, he has written song lyrics and made recordings with some of Brazil's leading jazz and pop musicians. Alexis Levitin's translations of Maranhão's poems have previously appeared in BOMB, Brasil/Brazil, Dirty Goat, Fourth River, Measure, Osiris, Per Contra, Pleiades, Sirena, Spoon River Poetry Review, Subtropics, Turnrow, Words Without Borders, and Xavier Review.

Alexis Levitin has published more than twenty-five books of translation, including eleven collections of poems by Portuguese poet Eugénio de Andrade. His translations have appeared in more than numerous anthologies and hundreds of literary journals including Grand Street, Partisan Review, American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review, and Prairie Schooner. He has received four grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, two Fulbright Awards, and a number of other prestigious awards and residencies. Levitin teaches in the English program at the State University of New York, Plattsburgh.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Milkweed Editions
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1571314539
• ISBN 13: 9781571314536
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 192
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible