Book record
Cattle of the lord
Rosa Alice Branco
Translated from Portuguese by Alexis Levitin
Cattle of the lord, by Rosa Alice Branco and translated by Alexis Levitin from Portuguese, brings Portuguese-language poetry from Portugal into English through Portuguese rural-spiritual pressure, cattle, and Rosa Alice Branco's title as both devotion and earthly weight. 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 cattle, lord, pasture, and the tension between creaturely life and sacred address, not as a fixed lesson about Portugal. 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. Cattle of the lord belongs in the translated poetry library because it adds Portuguese poetry through embodiment, humility, and the pastoral made philosophically uneasy.
- Published
- 2016
- Publisher
- Milkweed
- Language
- Portuguese
- Country
- Portugal
- ISBN
- 9781571314826