Tiger Fur

by Salgado Maranhao, Alexis Levitin (Translator)

Overview

"The wildly imaginative poems of Tiger Fur read like burning transcripts of one possessed with the rare gift of pure poetry. The collection is a hymn to desire, and to the ecstasy and pain of love, each poem aching with the yearning for connection. It's also a hymn to the imagination, and Maranhão's love of linguistic play and paradox makes these poems difficult to translate. Levitin's finely nuanced, inspired renderings are, however, as wondrous as the originals. One cannot read this collection without being marked, eyes ablaze and singed with the poet's vision."—Sheryl St Germain

"Alexis Levitin has given us a perfect English rendering of Salgado Maranhão's deft expression of the tonality of this people and land."—Gregory Rabassa

Salgado Maranhão is the author of nine collections of poems. Blood of the Sun previously appeared in English translation.

Alexis Levitin has translated thirty-one books of poetry.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781935210719
Publisher:	White Pine Press
Publication date:	10/06/2015
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	102
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Salgado Maranhao: Salgado Maranhão is the author of nine collections of poems. His recent volume of new and selected poems, entitled A Cor da Palavra (The Color of the Word), was named the best book of poetry by the Brazilian Academy of Letters in 2011. Blood of the Sun was his first book to appear in English.

Alexis Levitin: Alexis Levitin has translated thirty-one books of poetry, including Clarice Lispector’s Soulstorm and Eugénio de Andrade’s Forbidden Words. He is a Distinguished Professor at SUNY-Plattsburgh.

Table of Contents

Tiger Fur Table of Contents

Pre-Logos I
Pre-Logos II
Sea of Flames 1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10

Sea Without Waves l
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10

Drifting Sea 1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10

Open Sea 1
Claws in the Iris
Open Sea 2
Interfaces
Open Sea 3
Nidos de pajaros idos
Beams of Light
Solitude
Who?
Tiger Fur