Book record
Void Odyssey
Renato Negrão
Translated from Portuguese by Sarah Rebecca Kersley
Renato Negrão’s Void Odyssey, translated by Sarah Rebecca Kersley, is a chapbook whose title suggests travel through absence rather than destination. The phrase holds two opposed energies: odyssey implies narrative, motion, trial, return; void implies negation, blankness, cosmic emptiness. That tension gives the book its charge before the first page. Coming from Brazilian Portuguese through Toad Press and Veliz Books, it likely offers a concentrated encounter rather than a sprawling one. Chapbooks often succeed when they hold a single pressure long enough to transform it, and this title suggests exactly that. Kersley’s translation gives English-language readers access to a compact poetic voyage through nothingness, where the point may not be arrival but the strange attention made possible by emptiness.
- Publisher
- Toad Press / Veliz Books
- Language
- Portuguese
- Country
- Brazil