Territory Is Not the Map by Marilia Garcia and translated by Hilary Kaplan

This is poetry from Brazil.

Territory Is Not the Map by Marilia Garcia translated by Hilary Kaplan is published by Ugly Duckling Presse. This is a Book originally written in Portuguese. This was published in 2017.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781946433091E12.

Territory Is Not the Map, by Marilia Garcia and translated by Hilary Kaplan from Portuguese, brings Portuguese-language poetry from Brazil into English through Brazilian mapping trouble, Marilia Garcia’s spatial poetics, and the difference between territory and representation. The metadata gives the reader a doorway, but the real value is what happens once the poem starts making its own weather. I would read it for territory, map, city, and the restless walk between actual place and the systems that claim to name it, not as a fixed lesson about Brazil. The best entry point is still the poem itself: the line that catches, the image that refuses to explain itself, the feeling that arrives before paraphrase. Territory Is Not the Map belongs in the translated poetry library because it gives contemporary Brazilian poetry a thoughtful, mobile form of urban and conceptual attention.

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.

Check out more of the always in-progress translated poetry index here.