Tiger Fur by Salgado Maranhao and translated by Alexis Levitin

This is poetry from Brazil.

Tiger Fur by Salgado Maranhao translated by Alexis Levitin is published by White Pine Press. This is a Book originally written in Portuguese. This was published in 2015.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781935210719E12.

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.

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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