Terracotta / Terracotta
2009; University of Oklahoma; Volume: 83; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1353/wlt.2009.0095
ISSN1945-8134
Autores Tópico(s)Cultural, Media, and Literary Studies
Resumopoetry / ana paula tavares Terracotta Terracotta Abre a terra deixa que me veja ao espelho e encontre o meu lugar no vazio nomeio das trezentasmil virgens de terracota Abre a terra, meu amigo essa terratecida de mil cores d'areia vinda do norte semente do tempo onde as mais velhas descansam Open theearth let me seemyself in the mirror and find my place inemptiness among threehundred thousand terracottavirgins Open theearth, my friend this landwoven of a thousand sand colors driftingfromthenorth seeds of time where theolder ones rest deixando aos pes a danqa de apressar a vida. leaving to the feet thedance ofhurrying life. Translation from the Portuguese bypaulo da costa Ana Paula Tavares, one of the most important contemporary voices in Angolan poetry, was born in Lubango,Angola, in 1952. She has publishedRitosde Passagem (1985,poetry), O Sanguedas Buganviiias (1998, chronicles), 0 Lago da Lua (1999, poetry), Dizes-me Coisas Amargas como os Frutos (2001, poetry, Literary Prize M?rio Ant?nio from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation), Ex-Votos (2003, poetry), A Cabeca de Salome (2004, chronicles), Os olhos do h?rnern que chorava no rio (2005, with coauthor Manuel Jorge Marmelo), and Manual para amantes desesperados (poetry, 2007). paulo da costa, born inAngola and raised inPortugal, isa writer, editor, and translator living on theWest Coast of Canada. His firstbook of fiction, The Scent of a Lie, received the 2003 Commonwealth First Book Prize for the Canada-Caribbean Region and theW. O. Mitchell City of Calgary Book Prize. In Portuguese he published notas de rodape (poetry, 2005). His poetry and fiction have been published in literary magazines around theworld and have been translated intoChinese, Italian, Spanish, Serbian, Slovenian, and Portuguese. January-February 2009 i21 ...
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