What's in a name

Author / Creator

Amaral, Ana Luísa, 1956-2022, author

Available as

Physical

Summary

"With the elliptical looping of a butterfly alighting on one's sleeve, the poems of Ana Luísa Amaral arrive as small hypnotic miracles. Spare and beautiful in a way reminiscent both of Szymborska a...

"With the elliptical looping of a butterfly alighting on one's sleeve, the poems of Ana Luísa 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"--

Show More