Dirty poem by Ferreira Gullar and translated by Leland Guyer

This is poetry from Brazil.

Dirty poem by Ferreira Gullar translated by Leland Guyer is published by New Directions Publishing Corporation. This is a Book originally written in Portuguese. This was published in 2015.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780811223959E12.

Dirty poem, by Ferreira Gullar, is a Portuguese poetry collection from Brazil, translated by Leland Guyer, published by New Directions Publishing Corporation in 2015. It is a Brazilian long poem by Ferreira Gullar with political heat, bodily grit, and memory under pressure. The dirt matters: it keeps the poem close to life, poverty, history, and the unsanitized textures of a city. 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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