Segredos e Encantos das Vilas Portuguesas

Segredos e Encantos das Vilas Portuguesas examines Portugal's overlooked settlements with the attentiveness of a cartographer and the sensibility of a flaneur. Martim Castro de Noronha has produced a collection that resists easy categorization, part meditation, part inventory, part love letter to places that exist at the margins of contemporary consciousness.

The book proceeds village by village, each poem anchored to a specific location yet concerned with larger questions of persistence and...