Purifications or the Sign of Retaliation

These are dense, florid, strange, and beautiful poems that rewrite the Greek pantheon into a feminist Brazilian landscape.

About the author

Myriam Fraga: Myriam Fraga (1937-2016) was a contemporary Brazilian poet from Salvador da Bahia. She is also executive director of the Fundação Casa de Jorge Amado and a member of the Bahian Academy of Letters. Her published work includes ten volumes of poetry, as well as biographies and children's literature.

Chloe Hill: Chloe Hill is a PhD student in the Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies at Brown University. In 2014, with the support of a Fulbright fellowship, she traveled to Brazil to work alongside Myriam Fraga translating a selection of poems.

Summary

These are dense, florid, strange, and beautiful poems that rewrite the Greek pantheon into a feminist Brazilian landscape.

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Product details

• Authors: Myriam Fraga
• Assisted by: Chloe Hill (Translation)
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2017
• EAN: 9781945680076
• ISBN: 978-1-945680-07-6
• No. of pages: 120
• Series: Cliff Becker Book Prize in Tra; The Cliff Becker Book Prize in Translation; The Cliff Becker Book Prize in Translation; Cliff Becker Book Prize in Tra
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies