At Your Feet by Ana Cristina Cesare and translated by Brenda Hillman

This is poetry from Brazil.

At Your Feet by Ana Cristina Cesare translated by Brenda Hillman is published by Parlor Press. This is a Book originally written in Portuguese. This was published in 2018.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781602354852E12.

At Your Feet, by Ana Cristina Cesare, is a Portuguese poetry collection from Brazil, translated by Brenda Hillman, published by Parlor Press in 2018. It is a Brazilian collection by Ana Cristina Cesar where intimacy, performance, and literary self-awareness blur. The title sounds devotional, but the poems are sharper and stranger than simple surrender. 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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