Book record
A Child In Ruins
José Luís Peixoto
Translated from Portuguese by Hugo Dos Santos
A Child In Ruins, by José Luís Peixoto, is a Portuguese poetry collection from Portugal, translated by Hugo Dos Santos, published by Writ Large Press in 2016. It is a Portuguese collection by José Luís Peixoto where childhood, damage, and tenderness meet in stark light. The title hurts before the poems begin, and that hurt becomes a way of reading memory without consolation. I would read it first for the pressure of the translated line rather than as a puzzle waiting for its correct answer. The best version of a description for a book like this should give the reader a door, not a lecture: a little context, then permission to meet the poem through image, cadence, and affect. For this library, the book matters as more than a representative entry from Portugal. It shows how poetry in translation can carry local weather, private intensity, and literary history into English without becoming merely informational.
- Published
- 2016
- Publisher
- Writ Large Press
- Language
- Portuguese
- Country
- Portugal
- ISBN
- 9780981483696