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Adélia Prado The Alphabet in the Park (Paperback)
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- Book Title
- Alphabet in the Park : Selected Poems
- Publication Name
- The Alphabet in the Park
- Title
- The Alphabet in the Park
- Subtitle
- Selected Poems
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 0819511773
- EAN
- 9780819511775
- ISBN
- 9780819511775
- Publisher
- Wesleyan University Press
- Genre
- Literary Criticism, Poetry
- Release Date
- 01/06/1990
- Release Year
- 1990
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.2in
- Item Length
- 9in
- Publication Year
- 1990
- Topic
- European / Spanish & Portuguese, General
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 4.8 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 80 Pages
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Poetry that eloquently concentrates on the spiritual and physical lives of women. This is the first book published in English by of the work of Brazilian poet Adélia Prado. Incorporating poems published over the past fifteen years, The Alphabet in the Park is a book of passion and intelligence, wit and instinct. These are poems about human concerns, especially those of women, about living in one's body and out of it, about the physical but also the spiritual and the imaginative life. Prado also writes about ordinary matters; she insists that the human experience is both mystical and carnal. To Prado these are not contradictory: "It's the soul that's erotic," she writes. As Ellen Watson says in her introduction, "Adélia Prados poetry is a poetry of abundance. These poems overflow with the humble, grand, various stuff of daily life - necklaces, bicycles, fish; saints and prostitutes and presidents; innumerable chickens and musical instruments...And, seemingly at every turn, there is food." But also, an abundance of dark things, cancer, death, greed. These are poems of appetite, all kinds.
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Publisher
Wesleyan University Press
ISBN-10
0819511773
ISBN-13
9780819511775
eBay Product ID (ePID)
284555
Product Key Features
Book Title
Alphabet in the Park : Selected Poems
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
European / Spanish & Portuguese, General
Publication Year
1990
Genre
Literary Criticism, Poetry
Number of Pages
80 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.2in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
4.8 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pq9698.26.R29a6 1990
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"From a dark corner of despair Prado can rocket to pure joy in one line. All the contradictions, paradoxes, and dualities of our lives thrive here. This is poetry at its hottest and most naked, beautiful poetry of the body and soul"--James Tate, "From a dark corner of despair Prado can rocket to pure joy in one line. All the contradictions, paradoxes, and dualities of our lives thrive here. This is poetry at its hottest and most naked, beautiful poetry of the body and soul"--James Tate "This is a marvelous book: ingeniously translated, Prado's world is exciting, fully realized, strange to us. She writes with gusto, wit, tenderness, compassion, and vulnerability."--Stuart Friebert "It isn't difficult to understand why Adélia Prado has been suspected of taking dictation from Saint Francis himself; but this voice is Prado's own, and with these poems we are able at last to read a major poet of the Americas. In Ellen Watson's hands, Prado's world arrives in English as if it had never left Portugese. I send Adélia Prado and translator bouquets of gratitude."--Carolyn Forché
Lccn
8938-000463
Dewey Decimal
869.1
Intended Audience
Trade
Series
Wesleyan Poetry in Translation Ser.
Dewey Edition
20
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