Birds For A Demolition Poems by Manoel de Barros and translated by Idra Novey

This is poetry from Brazil.

Birds For A Demolition Poems by Manoel de Barros translated by Idra Novey is published by Carnegie Mellon. This is a Book originally written in Portuguese. This was published in 2010.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780887485237E12.

Birds For A Demolition Poems, by Manoel de Barros and translated by Idra Novey from Portuguese, brings Portuguese-language poetry from Brazil into English through Brazilian demolition, birds, and Manoel de Barros’s earthy surrealism turned toward small creatures and broken structures. The metadata gives the reader a doorway, but the real value is what happens once the poem starts making its own weather. I would read it for birds, demolition, mud, and the playful ruin where language starts growing weeds, not as a fixed lesson about Brazil. The best entry point is still the poem itself: the line that catches, the image that refuses to explain itself, the feeling that arrives before paraphrase. Birds For A Demolition Poems belongs in the translated poetry library because it gives Brazilian poetry a strange, creaturely, anti-grand doorway into imagination.

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