A man and his shadow by Affonso Romano de Sant’Anna and translated by Fred Ellison

This is poetry from Brazil.

A man and his shadow by Affonso Romano de Sant’Anna translated by Fred Ellison is published by Host Pub.. This is a Book originally written in Portuguese. This was published in 2008.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780924047671E12.

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.

If you’d like to see international poetry continue and gain traction, consider requesting this work from your local library, or purchasing it from places like Open Books (a poetry only bookstore), Asterism Books (an independent press distributor), or bookshop.org to connect you with your local bookstores.

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