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Overview

Ana Cristina Cesar (1952-1983) has posthumously become one of Brazil's best known avant-garde poets. After her suicide in 1983, her innovative, mythic, and dreamlike poetry has greatly influenced subsequent generations of writers. At Your Feet was originally published as a poetic sequence and later became part of a longer hybrid work-- sometimes prose, sometimes verse--documenting the life and mind of a forcefully active literary woman. Cesar, who also worked internationally as a journalist and translator, often found inspiration in the writings of other poets, among them Emily Dickinson, Armando Freitas Filho, and Gertrude Stein. Her innovative writing has been featured in Sun and Moon's classic anthology Nothing the Sun Could Not Explain--20 Contemporary Brazilian Poets (2000). Poet Brenda Hillman and her mother Helen Hillman (a native speaker of Portuguese) worked with Brazilian poet SebastiÃo Edson Macedo and translator/editor Katrina Dodson to render as faithfully as possible the intricately layered poems of this legendary writer. At Your Feet includes both the English translation and original Portuguese.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781602354852
Publisher: Parlor Press
Publication date: 02/19/2018
Series: Free Verse Editions
Pages: 114
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.27(d)

About the Author

Ana Cristina Cesar (1952-1983) has posthumously become one of Brazil's best known avant-garde poets. After her suicide in 1983, her innovative, mythic, and dreamlike poetry has greatly influenced subsequent generations of writers.

Brenda Hillman (b. 1951) is a poet, educator, editor and activist; she is the author of ten collections of poetry with Wesleyan University Press, most recently Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire (2013), which received the Griffin International Poetry Prize, and Extra Hidden Life, Among the Days, forthcoming in 2018. Hillman serves as the Filippi Professor of Poetry at St. Mary's College of California.

Katrina Dodson (b. 1979) is a writer and translator based between San Francisco and New York. Her translation of the Complete Stories by Clarice Lispector won the 2016 PEN Translation Prize, among other awards. Dodson holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Berkeley.

Table of Contents

Preface

[Soundtrack in the background]

[A storm closes in]

[Second quick story about happiness]

Lock and Key

European Winter

Carioca Night

Ivory

Independent Youth

[EXTERIOR. DAY]

Primer for a Cure

[I need to go back and take another look]

Ladies' Talk

Summary

[The story is complete: wide sargasso sea]

[Without you I'm really a lake, a mountain]

Behind the Eyes of Serious Girls

Behind the Eyes of Serious Girls

Haunting Encounter at the Cathedral

This Book

Two Old Ones

I

II

Vacillation of Vocation

[My mouth is]

[setting you free]

[she loved]

[it's very clear]

[When between us there was only]

[Used to reappear suddenly]

Bedside

Adventure in the Stocky House

Public Man #1 (Anthology)

Pour Mémoire

Good Friday

What Slides

Samba Song

Travelling

Out There

[Now and then I dig through this black bag]

[I wanted to speak of death]

Holy Saturday

[Ever since I came back I jump]

[Everything I never told you, inside these margins]

Final Fire

Onomastic Index

Acknowledgments

Notes

Free Verse Editions

About the Editor and Translators

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