New Orleans Poetry Festival
Cafe Istanbul
2372 St Claude Ave
New Orleans, LA 70117
United States
Admission: $75 includes admission to all readings, performances, and workshops.
This Friday Night International Feature will feature performances by Pierre Joris and Nicole Peyrafitte, Salgado Maranhäo and translator Alexis Levitin (Blood of the Sun, 2012), Isabel de la Fuente, Javier Etchevarren and translator Jesse Lee Kercheval, Andrea Jurjević reading Olja Savičević, and more at Cafe Istanbul.
Alexis Levitin
Alexis Levitin has translated over thirty collections of Portugese poetry and prose into English, including Rosa Alice Branco’s Cattle of the Lord and Salgado Maranhão’s Blood of the Sun. He is a Distinguished Professor at SUNY Plattsburgh.
In these poems, presented in both Portuguese and English, butcher shops, sex, and machine guns sit in spirited dialogue with language, absence, and time. The resulting collection is varied as well as unified, brilliantly textured and layered.