Spotlight on the WordAstrid Cabral (trans. Alexis Levitin) In her late career examination of language, poetry, and song, renowned Brazilian poet and environmentalist Astrid Cabral focuses on the mystery and elusiveness of the very building blocks of her endeavor. Spotlight on the Word, Cabrals third book in English translation, is a far ranging contemplation of the poets endless endeavor to create meaning with the fragile and somehow inadequate material of her craft. For

Met het schitterende poëziedebuut De vogelgrens oversteken kijkt Vreedzaam de erfenis van het afstandelijke zwijgen over het verleden in de ogen

A Sand Book is a poetry collection in twelve parts

and Câmera lenta (2017)

Brenda Shaughnessy

' Each poem is date-stamped

and cultural events that have become charged sites of collective reminiscence (the moon landing

to the 'passing moment

most experimental late work

she writes both to keep a vanished world present and to exploit the possibilities of being present for constant experimentation

Dark Matter aggravates their perception while exhausting poetry down to its nerve: "a faint spasm of cheers before this

laying bare the immense toll of exploitative labor practices and the self-serving nature of authoritative bodies

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