Rilke Shake

With frenetic humor and linguistic innovation, Angélica Freitas constructs a temple of delight to celebrate her own literary canon.

About the author

Angélica Freitas (b. 1973) is the author of Rilke shake (Cosac Naify, 2007) and Um útero é do tamanho de um punho (Cosac Naify, 2012). Her graphic novel, Guadalupe (2012), published by Companhia das Letras, was illustrated by Odyr Bernardi. Freitas’s poems have been translated and published in German, Spanish, Swedish, Romanian, and English. She was awarded a Programa Petrobras Cultural writing fellowship in 2009. Freitas co-edits the poetry journal Modo de Usar & Co. and lives in Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.

Hilary Kaplan‘s translations of Brazilian poetry and fiction have been featured in Modern Poetry in Translation, PEN America, and on BBC Radio 4. Her writing on Brazilian poetry and poetics appears in eLyra, Jacket2, Rascunho, and the collection Deslocamentos Críticos. She holds an M.F.A. from San Francisco State University. She received a 2011 PEN Translation Fund grant for her translation of Rilke Shake. Kaplan lives in Los Angeles.

Product details

• Authors: Angelica Freitas, Angélica Freitas
• Assisted by: Hilary Kaplan (Translation)
• Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
• Languages: English, Portuguese
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9781939419545
• ISBN: 978-1-939419-54-5
• No. of pages: 124
• Dimensions: 122 mm x 174 mm x 10 mm
• Weight: 122 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies