One Impossible Step : Selected Poems / Orides Fontela and Chris Daniels.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fontela Orides, author.

Daniels, Chris, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Authors--Poetry.

Authors.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (105 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York : Nightboat Books, [2023]

Summary:

A selection of extraordinarily condensed, emotionally complex, philosophical poems by one of the most unique and highly regarded 20th century Brazilian poets. In her lifetime, Orides Fontela resisted all labels, all attempts to situate her work in a particular movement, school, tendency, or tradition. Here, in her first ever English-language collection, Fontela's poetry continues to defy easy categorization. In these concise, meditative poems, Fontela's bird and flower, water and stone, blood and star can be read as symbols, indicating a possible tendency toward mysticism. Including an illuminating statement of poetics and excerpts from her often acerbic interviews, One Impossible Step introduces English-language audiences to an iconoclast who remains one across languages and decades.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

from Transposition (1969)

from Helianthus (1973)

from Alba (1983)

from Rosace (1986)

from Web (1996)

Poetics

On Poetry and Philosophy-A Testimony

On the Way to Clover

Extracts from Interviews with Orides Fontela

Afterword by Ricardo Domeneck

Translator's Note

Acknowledgments

Bibliography

About the Authors

Nightboat Books.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Orides, Fontela One Impossible Step

ISBN:

1-64362-224-2

OCLC:

1407315087