Blood of the Sun: Poems

"A perfect English rendering of Salgado Maranhão's deft expression of the tonality of this people and land." —Gregory Rabassa, acclaimed American translator

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 traditiona...