Cuíer

Name: Cuíer
Brand: Two Lines Press
SKU: 9781949641189
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Angélica Freitas

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Caio Fernando Abreu

(Author)

Carol Bensimon

(Author)

et al.

Ana Cristina Cesar

(Author)

Ricardo Domeneck

(Author)

Cristina Judar

(Author)

Tatiana Nascimento

(Author)

Sarah Coolidge

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For the first time, and against the backdrop of Bolsonaro's emboldened far-right regime, Brazil's legendary and pioneering queer writers appear together in English translation.

This far-reaching, bilingual assortment of fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and photography--erotic and personal, revolutionary, hopeful, joyous, and bitter--continues the legacy of defiant queer expression in Brazil and demands its prolific, unapologetic future.

In fresh and poetic prose, Raimundo Neto brings us lesser-known narratives of queer life in rural Brazil, including the story of a boy determined to become the "harvest bride" at a the local annual harvest dance. Poet Angélica Freitas details a disturbingly familiar world in which women are divided into rigid binaries--clean or dirty, good or bad--with stark language that builds into utter absurdity. And Caio Fernando Abreu sits in a hospital dying of AIDS, meeting with angels and writing letters in which he repeats "all I can do is write" like a mantra. Spanning four decades, and featuring a total of thirteen writers, Cuíer reminds us again, as Natalia Affonso says in her translation of Tatiana Nascimento's poem:

...what we make

lying down is

also

revolution.

Product Details

Publisher	Two Lines Press
Publish Date	September 28, 2021
Pages	344
Language	English
Type	Paperback / softback
EAN/UPC	9781949641189
Dimensions	6.9 X 5.9 X 1.0 inches \| 0.9 pounds

BISAC Categories: Popular Fiction , Literary FictionLGBTQ+

Product Details

Publisher	Two Lines Press
Publish Date	September 28, 2021
Pages	344
Language	English
Type	Paperback / softback
EAN/UPC	9781949641189
Dimensions	6.9 X 5.9 X 1.0 inches \| 0.9 pounds

BISAC Categories: Popular Fiction , Literary FictionLGBTQ+

About the Author

One of the most influential and original Brazilian writers of short fiction of the 1980s and '90s, Caio Fernando Abreu is the author of twelve story collections set and published during the military dictatorship and the AIDS epidemic in Brazil. He has been awarded major literary prizes, including the prestigious Jabuti Prize for Fiction a total of three times. He died of AIDS in Porto Alegre in 1996. He was 47 years old.

Angélica Freitas is an acclaimed Brazilian poet whose poetry addresses topics of feminism and LGBTQ issues, in dialogue with poetics of the past. Her first collection, Rilke Shake, was translated into English by Hilary Kaplan, winning both the Best Translated Book Award for poetry and the National Translation Award for poetry in 2016. "A Clean Woman" is from her second collection, Um útero é tamanho de um punho [A womb is the size of a fist], which recently became the subject of attempted censorship in the state assembly of Santa Catarina, Brazil.

Carol Bensimon was born in the southern Brazilian city of Porto Alegre, in 1982. She is the author of the story collection Pó de parede and three novels, Sinuca embaixo d'água, O clube dos jardineiros de Fumaça, and Todos nós adorávamos caubóis, the latter published in English translation as We All Loved Cowboys (Transit Books). In 2012, Carol was selected by Granta as one of the Best Young Brazilian Novelists. She lives in Mendocino, California.

João Gilberto Noll (1946-2017) is the author of nearly twenty books. His work appeared in Brazil's leading periodicals, and he was a guest of the Rockefeller Foundation, King's College London, and the University of California at Berkeley, as well as a Guggenheim Fellow. A five-time recipient of the Prêmio Jabuti, and the recipient of more than ten awards in all, he died in Porto Alegre, Brazil, at the age of seventy.

Wilson Bueno was a major Brazilian literary figure and one of several experimental authors to emerge in from the southern city of Curitiba in the late 20th century, alongside Paulo Leminski and Alice Ruiz. His novels explore a wide range of styles and topics; his Mar paraquayo (1992), written in a unique mix of Portuguese, Spanish, and Guarani, was heralded as an instant classic. He was murdered in his home in late May 2010 in what was an all-too-common example of anti-gay violence; his confessed killer was acquitted by a jury and subsequently set free.

Ana Cristina Cesar (1952-1983) was a poet, critic, and translator from Rio de Janeiro. She was also a prolific letter writer. Today her work has achieved cult status and she is considered one of Brazil's most original literary voices. Her poetry, which switches between prose and verse, is known for its epistolary, diaristic style. While she never considered herself a feminist, Ana C. is known for having carved a path for Brazilian feminist poetry.

Cidinha da Silva is a playwright, scholar, and novelist. Author of #Parem de nos matar!, among others, da Silva has written works for children, young adult, and adult audiences. With Açoes afirmativas em educação: experiências brasileiras and Africanidades e relações raciais: insumos para politicas publicas na área do livro, leitura, literatura, e bibliotecas no Brasil, da Silva became one of the first Brazilian authors to explore affirmative action as a means of overcoming racial inequalities. Her work has been translated into Spanish, French, English, and Italian.

Carla Diacov is a Brazilian poet and artist born in in the state of São Paulo in 1975. She has published various books of poetry, including Amanhã alguém morre no samba [Tomorrow someone dies in the samba] (2015). She also maintains a prolific online output of poetry, photography, videos, and visual art, including paintings using her own menstrual blood. Thanks to this, her playfully avant-garde, viscerally political work has developed a cult following both inside and outside Brazil.

Ricardo Domeneck is a poet, short fiction writer and essayist, born in Bebedouro, in the state of São Paulo, Brazil, in 1977. He currently lives and works in Berlin, Germany. [check with translators]

Cristina Judar is a writer from São Paulo. Her award-winning books Roteiros para uma vida curta and Oito do Sete challenge literary categories, traversing boundaries between poetry and prose. She has also written Questions for a Live Writing at the Queen Mary University of London and co-organized the anthologies A resistência dos vaga-lumes and Pandemônio.

Raimundo Neto is a young author already widely lauded for his rhythmic and at times claustrophobic prose. His work interrogates the struggles and joys of femininity across genders, and how it is constrained or cultivated by family, partners, and passersby. His debut short story collection, Todo esse amor que inventamos para nós, takes inspiration in part from his own experiences growing up femme in Brazil's largely rural and working-class Northeast region.

Tatiana Nascimento is a thirty-nine-year-old wordsmith from Brasília, a city built amidst the Cerrado, a tropical savanna known for its tortas trees. Her musical and poetic works wander across geographical extremes and disassemble words through morphological ruptures, semantic silences, and syntactic repetition, deepening the layers of expressivity and ambiguity. A sapatona convicta, an afro-futurist lesbian, she publishes artisanal books by other LBT and/or Black writers through padê editorial.

Marcio Junqueira (b. 1981) is a poet and visual artist, as well as a professor of literature at the Universidade do Estado da Bahia (UNEB). He is pursuing his doctorate in visual arts at the Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA), focusing on questions of black masculinity and the homoerotic. His books include Sábado (Riacho, 2019), LUCAS (Sociedade da Prensa, 2015), and Voilá mon coeur (Edições MAC, 2010). Along with Marcelo Lima and Patricia Martins, he coedited an anthology entitled Antologia Rabiscos, and along with Clarissa Freitas, Lucas Matos, and Thiago Gallego, he collaborates on the multimedia project Bliss não tem bis.

Reviews

"A valuable addition to the significant body of gay, lesbian, and queer Brazilian literature, foremost because of the outstanding selection of writers it brings together...Cuíer's very diverse voices not only represent male gay or lesbian desire but, moving way beyond binary limitations, give expression to the full spectrum of human sexuality and queer identities, including those that refuse any such identification....A precious gem." --World Literature Today

"The latest offering from Two Lines Press' chic Calico series is, like all its predecessors, expansively and thoughtfully curated...it will not deign to explain itself to us, if it does not want to. And this quality might well characterise all of the books in Two Lines' Calico series, but I find it especially apt here--in the lives of people for whom mystery might be a form of survival." --Asymptote

"This anthology of translations is as much a gift as a collection, attempting to encapsulate the multitude of experiences that make up queer Brazil. Poetry and prose from some of Brazil's most profound writers appears on the page in the original Portuguese and in English translation, underscoring the importance of translation as an act of seeing and understanding....A must-read for those seeking to expand their global world view of queer life and literature." --Emily Dziuban, Booklist

"This eclectic bilingual anthology from queer Brazilian writers, both living and dead, is as expansive and full of life as the country itself...enticing and poignant." --Publishers Weekly

P>"A lively collection...American readers will easily connect with the universality of queer experiences portrayed, from romance, to coming out, to struggling with identity and with AIDS, but will find them enlivened and made fresh again by uniquely Brazilian details." --Passport

"A concise and enlightening overview of the last fifty years of LGBTQ literature from South America's largest country. Spanning Brazil's regional boundaries and including legends such as Ana Cristina Cesar, Caio Fernando Abreu, and Wilson Bueno, as well as newer voices such as Marcio Junqueira, Cristina Judar, and Angélica Freitas among many others, Cuíer is nothing less than divine!" --John Keene, author of Counternarratives

"Fabulously queer in both senses of the word: it's unlike anything you've encountered before, yet ever familiar." --Rabih Alameddine, author of The Wrong End of the Telescope

"Oppression and liberation, struggle and joy, lots of sex and community, complicated childhood awakenings, coming-out euphorias, adulthood analyses--Cuier merges the universality of queer experiences with the specificity of the Brazilian culture, creating an an inspiring collection of angles and stances, forms and attitudes, that carries through to the very last, moving piece." --Michelle Tea, author of Against Memoir

"Cuíer: Queer Brazil is a thrilling collection of joyous and ruinous life in all of its contradictions. Like Kafka's parables or Lispector's The Passion According to G.H., the work in this volume makes a profound ethical statement: to depict honestly one's life at oblique angles, often beautiful, often terrifying, can be both personal and revolutionary." --Patrick Cottrell, editor of McSweeney's 62: The Queer Fiction Issue

Praise for the Calico Series

"Stone, earth, water, ice, wind, and burning heat. The stories here dig deep and unexpectedly into life's fundamentals--the elements and the passions--bringing into English, many for the first time, writers of stature from across the globe. A celebration of both storytelling and translation, Elemental is essential; a gift that opens up the pleasures of new worlds." --Hugh Raffles, author of The Book of Unconformities, on Elemental

"Marvelous...a credit to the art of both poets and translators." --Cynthia Hogue, author of In June the Labyrinth and co-translator of Joan Darc, by Nathalie Quintane, on Home

"This remarkable anthology of Chinese speculative fiction offers seven tales of societal responsibility and individual freedom.... By turns cryptic and revealing, phantasmagorical and straightforward, these tales balance reality and fantasy on the edge of a knife."--Publishers Weekly, starred review of That We May Live

"With enthralling and precise language, this first book in Two Lines Press' Calico series of collected translated literature impresses...This collection of speculative Chinese fiction is compelling and provocative, exploring the thin line between reality and absurdity. " --Booklist, starred review of That We May Live

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