Renata & Other Poems

by Renata Pallottini

Book Overview

Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Translated from the Portugese by K. David Jackson. RENATA & OTHER POEMS introduces readers to Renata Pallottini's world of "organized anarchy" in a stunning bilingual... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0924047267
• ISBN13: 9780924047268
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Host Publications
• Length: 163 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.7" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

A welcome addition to university library collections and International Literary Studies poetry readi

Brazilian poet Renata Pallottini is considered a major poet in her home country. Now in a bilingual edition, Renata And Other Poems is the first time her work has been published in the United States, making her accessible to a whole new audience of appreciative readers. Her poetry showcases the contradictions of everyday life, the balancing of lies and truth, illusions and frustrations, pains and pleasures, even life and death. Ably translated by K. David Jackson (Yale University) and enhanced with an informative introduction by Elzbieta Szoka, Renata And Other Poems (also available in a hardcover edition (0924047267, $25.00) would make a welcome addition to university library collections and International Literary Studies poetry reading lists. A Hard Poem To Give Courage: When the Master takes me/to the buttresses of the hardest squares/and there lets me fall down drunk/someone always picks me up//I never stayed there for more than a few hours/delivered to the hands of animals in the shade/and there was always a pulse for me/something like a poet or a woman who sells tickets//when there wasn't, I had the dew/the repose of stones/and wine without venom//When the Master leaves us/there is always a human being up against the wall/who comes and lifts us up.