Book record
Lunduzinho
tatiana nascimento
Translated from Portuguese by Natalia Affonso
Lunduzinho, by tatiana nascimento, is a Portuguese poetry collection from Brazil, translated by Natalia Affonso, published by Ugly Duckling Presse in 2022. It is a Brazilian collection by tatiana nascimento rooted in Black, queer, musical, and ancestral currents. The title itself carries rhythm, and the poems ask English to listen beyond its usual habits of measure. 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
- 2022
- Publisher
- Ugly Duckling Presse
- Language
- Portuguese
- Country
- Brazil
- ISBN
- 9781946604118