Breathing in Portuguese, Living in English

by Heather Tosteson

"Cada l ngua concebe outra eu, /every language conceives another I, / igualmente essencial, new," Heather Tosteson writes in Breathing in Portuguese, Living in English. Exploring through a new language and life in another hemisphere what it means to be in the third stage, terceira idade, of a well-lived life, the poet realizes that she has "come here to live into the reality of my own mortality," a reality that holds powerful fulfillment as well as...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0982693311
• ISBN13: 9780982693315
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Wising Up Press
• Length: 76 Pages
• Weight: 0.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"