Brazilian Literature
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I wanted to write with bird words. / We lived in an immensely and nameless place / where we played with word play / like: Today I saw an ant kneeling on a rock! / Mother overhearing us play said: / Th... -
The man went in, stopped and looked around: not one free table, the whole restaurant was crammed. Extremely vexing. He knew what to expect on Saturdays and had tried to arrive earlier, but that day th... -
Brazilian author and journalist Lucrecia Zappi was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1972 but she spent her childhood and adolescence in São Paulo and Mexico City. Zappi is the author of two novels i... -
antes do sono chegar são seus cabelosque se espalham sobre as pernasas que não tenho mais antes mesmodo sono antes as portas estão vigiadas asolidez dos cadeados uma ressaca de mar -
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The bahi sun grew in the neme sky with a great deal of light. Now is the time to leave. Tokowisa paints himself for entering the forest. Tokowisa carries feathers, blowpipe, and bow... -
Of Death. Minimal Odes, a verse collection by Brazilian poet Hilda Hilst translated by Laura Cesarco Eglin, was a recipient of the 2019 Best Translated Book Awards. The prize jury co... -
Of Death. Minimal Odes, a verse collection by Brazilian poet Hilda Hilst translated by Laura Cesarco Eglin, was a recipient of the 2019 Best Translated Book Awards. The prize jury co... -
José J. Veiga’s Sombras de reis barbudos, first published in Brazil in 1972 is a text that is at once familiar and strange, of its time in a way and yet perennially relevant. It has elements...
