
Rilke Shake
Hilary Kaplan
(Translator)Description
WINNER OF THE 2016 BEST TRANSLATED BOOK AWARD!
WINNER OF THE 2016 NATIONAL TRANSLATION AWARD!
FINALIST FOR THE 2016 PEN POETRY TRANSLATION PRIZE!
"No fabled saudade here, but the sound of an ocarina underwater in the Orinoco." --Paul Hoover
"Wry, painfully funny and moving, Kaplan's translation captures the formal invention and deadpan beauty of the original perfectly." --Sasha Dugdale
Product Details
Publisher | Phoneme Media |
Publish Date | March 24, 2015 |
Pages | 124 |
Language | Portuguese |
Type | |
EAN/UPC | 9781939419545 |
Dimensions | 6.8 X 4.9 X 0.3 inches | 0.3 pounds |
About the Author
Hilary Kaplan's translations of Brazilian poetry and fiction have been featured in Modern Poetry in Translation, PEN America, and on BBC Radio 4. Her writing on Brazilian poetry and poetics appears in eLyra, Jacket2, Rascunho, and the collection Deslocamentos Críticos. She holds an M.F.A. from San Francisco State University. She received a 2011 PEN Translation Fund grant for her translation of Rilke Shake. Kaplan lives in Los Angeles.
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