The art of patience by Eugénio de Andrade and translated by Alexis Levitin

This is poetry from Portugal.

The art of patience by Eugénio de Andrade translated by Alexis Levitin is published by Red Dragonfly Press. This is a Book originally written in Portuguese. This was published in 2013.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781937693374E12.

The art of patience, by Eugénio de Andrade, is a Portuguese poetry collection from Portugal, translated by Alexis Levitin, published by Red Dragonfly Press in 2013. It is a Portuguese collection by Eugénio de Andrade that treats patience as sensuous practice and lyric discipline. The poems invite slow reading, the kind that lets clarity become warm rather than merely plain. 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 Portugal. It shows how poetry in translation can carry local weather, private intensity, and literary history into English without becoming merely informational.

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