Book record
Ex-Voto
Adélia Prado
Translated from Portuguese by Ellen Doré Watson
Ex-Voto, by Adélia Prado, is a Portuguese poetry collection from Brazil, translated by Ellen Dore Watson, published by Tupelo Press in 2013. It is a Brazilian collection by Adélia Prado where devotion, domestic life, eroticism, and ordinary astonishment share the same table. The title points toward offering, but Prado's offerings are never bloodless; they arrive with kitchens, bodies, God, and desire. 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
- 2013
- Publisher
- Tupelo Press
- Language
- Portuguese
- Country
- Brazil
- ISBN
- 9781936797301