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Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 978-1-57131-868-8
Pages: 162
Publish Date: September 2012
Genre: Poetry
Blood of the Sun
BY Salgado Maranhão, Alexis Levitin
In poems brilliantly textured and layered, Salgado Maranhão integrates socio-political thought with subjects abstractly metaphysical. Concrete collides with conceptual—butcher shops, sex, and machine guns in conversation with language, absence, and time—resulting in a collection varied as well as unified, an aesthetic at once traditional and postmodern. Writing in forms both fixed and free, Maranhão’s language suggests a jazz-like musicality that rings true in Alexis Levitin’s masterful translations. For readers who enjoy the complexity of Charles Simic, or the stylistically innovative syntax of César Vallejo, Maranhão’s Blood of the Sun is a sensually provocative amalgamation of both.
BEYOND THE BOOK
• Download a poster of the poem “Of Pain” from the collection and make it your computer’s desktop background—or print it off and hang it on the wall!
