Lunduzinho by tatiana nascimento and translated by Natalia Affonso

This is poetry from Brazil.

Lunduzinho by tatiana nascimento translated by Natalia Affonso is published by Ugly Duckling Presse. This is a Book originally written in Portuguese. This was published in 2022.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781946604118E12.

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.

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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