Book record
Tiger Fur
Salgado Maranhao
Translated from Portuguese by Alexis Levitin
Tiger Fur, by Salgado Maranhao, is a Portuguese poetry collection from Brazil, translated by Alexis Levitin, published by White Pine Press in 2015. It is a Brazilian collection by Salgado Maranhão where animal energy, sensual texture, and elemental force gather. The title gives the book danger and touch at once, a surface that invites attention and refuses taming. 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
- 2015
- Publisher
- White Pine Press
- Language
- Portuguese
- Country
- Brazil
- ISBN
- 9781935210719