Book record
A man and his shadow
Affonso Romano de Sant'Anna
Translated from Portuguese by Fred Ellison
A man and his shadow, by Affonso Romano de Sant'Anna, is a Portuguese poetry collection from Brazil, translated by Fred Ellison, published by Host Pub. in 2008. It is a Brazilian collection built around doubleness, self-regard, and the figure that follows the body. Sant'Anna's title makes shadow feel like companion, witness, and argument with the self. 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 Brazil. It shows how poetry in translation can carry local weather, private intensity, and literary history into English without becoming merely informational.
- Published
- 2008
- Publisher
- Host Pub.
- Language
- Portuguese
- Country
- Brazil
- ISBN
- 9780924047671