Art of Being a Tiger by Ana Luísa Amaral, Anna M. Klobucka and translated by Margaret Jull Costa

This is poetry from Portugal.

Art of Being a Tiger by Ana Luísa Amaral, Anna M. Klobucka translated by Margaret Jull Costa is published by Tagus Press. This is a Book originally written in Portuguese. This was published in 2018.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781933227818E12.

Art of Being a Tiger is a Portuguese multi-author or collaborative poetry volume from Portugal, associated with Ana Luísa Amaral, Anna M. Klobucka, translated by Margaret Jull Costa, and published by Tagus Press in 2018. It is a Portuguese collection by Ana Luísa Amaral where animal metaphor, feminist intelligence, and lyric wit move together. The title offers a poetics of becoming, not costume: what does it mean to inhabit ferocity with art? 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.

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