World

Poems of effervescent grace-about nature, magpies, reality, "the unreasons of this world," and spiders-from one of Portugal's most beloved poets, published in a beautiful bilingual edition

World-Ana Luísa Amaral's second collection with New Directions-offers a new exhilarating set of poems that convey wonder, bemusement, and an ever-deepening appreciation of life. Weaving the thread that connects the poem to life, World speaks of our immense human perplexity in the face of everything around ...