28 Portuguese Poets by Anthology and translated by Alexis Levitin, Richard Zenith

This is poetry from Portugal.

28 Portuguese Poets by Anthology translated by Alexis Levitin, Richard Zenith is published by Dedalus Press, The. This is a Book originally written in Portuguese. This was published in 2015.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781910251003E12.

28 Portuguese Poets is an anthology translated by Alexis Levitin, Richard Zenith from Portuguese, gathering Portuguese-language poetry from Portugal through an anthology of Portuguese poets, national range, and the task of making a living tradition audible in twenty-eight openings. Its value comes from chorus rather than singular authorship, so I would not treat it as one poet’s private weather. The better entrance is through Portugal, anthology, voices, and the many tonal rooms inside one language. Anthologies can become maps, but the best ones also leave room for wandering, disagreement, and surprise. 28 Portuguese Poets belongs in the translated poetry library because it offers readers a plural Portuguese map rather than a single representative lineage. It gives a reader several doors into a tradition before asking them to choose only one.

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