Bibliograph

What's in a name, Ana Luísa Amaral ; translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa

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What's in a name, Ana Luísa Amaral ; translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa

Language

eng

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index present

Literary Form

poetry

Main title

What's in a name

Responsibility statement

Ana Luísa Amaral ; translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa

Summary

"With the elliptical looping of a butterfly alighting on one's sleeve, the poems of Ana Luisa Amaral arrive as small hypnotic miracles. Spare and beautiful in a way reminiscent both of Szymborska and of Emily Dickinson (it comes as no surprise that Amaral is the leading Portuguese translator of Dickinson), these poems in Margaret Jull Costa's gorgeous English versions seamlessly interweave the everyday with the dreamlike and ask "What's in a name?" "How solid is a name if answered to, " Amaral answers, but "like the Rose no, like its perfume: ungovernable. Free." There is much freedom within Amaral's poetry, room for mysteries to multiply, and yet her beautiful lines are as clear as water"--, Provided by publisher

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