Book record
At Your Feet
Ana Cristina Cesare
Translated from Portuguese by Brenda Hillman
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.
- Published
- 2018
- Publisher
- Parlor Press
- Language
- Portuguese
- Country
- Brazil
- ISBN
- 9781602354852