In Blood of the Sun, Salgado Maranh?o--one of the most celebrated poets in Brazil today--weds the powerfully socio-political to the metaphysical. Masterfully translated by Alexis Levitin and presented in both Portuguese and English, this collection plunges into the concrete and the conceptual. Butcher shops, sex, and machine guns sit in spirited dialogue with language, absence, and time. Cannibalism offers an opportunity...
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