Of death by Hilda Hilst and translated by Laura Cesarce Eglin

This is poetry from Brazil.

Of death by Hilda Hilst translated by Laura Cesarce Eglin is published by Co im press. This is a Book originally written in Portuguese. This was published in 2018.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781947918016E12.

Of death, by Hilda Hilst, is a Portuguese poetry collection from Brazil, translated by Laura Cesarce Eglin, published by Co im press in 2018. It is a Brazilian collection by Hilda Hilst, one of the great writers of extremity, desire, and metaphysical trouble. Death here is not a topic to be handled neatly; it is a beloved, a terror, a door, and a dare. 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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