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What's in a name
- Title
- What's in a name / Ana Luísa Amaral ; translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa.
- Author
- Amaral, Ana Luísa, 1956-2022
- Publication
- New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, [2019]
- ©2019
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 19-2576 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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- Description
- 183 pages; 21 cm
- Summary
- "With the elliptical looping of a butterfly alighting on one's sleeve, the poems of Ana Luísa Amaral arrive as small hypnotic miracles. Spare and beautiful in a way reminiscent both of Szymborska and of Emily Dickinson (it comes as no surprise that Amaral is the leading Portuguese translator of Dickinson), these poems in Margaret Jull Costa's gorgeous English versions seamlessly interweave the everyday with the dreamlike and ask "What's in a name?" "How solid is a name if answered to," Amaral answers, but "like the Rose no, like its perfume: ungovernable. Free." There is much freedom within Amaral's poetry, room for mysteries to multiply, and yet her beautiful lines are as clear as water"--
- Alternative Title
- What is in a name
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Poetry.
- Translations.
- Note
- Poems.
- Includes index.
- "ndp1436"--Spine.
- Language (note)
- Portuguese and English on facing pages.
- Call Number
- JFD 19-2576
- ISBN
- 9780811228329
- 0811228320
- LCCN
- 2018045022
- OCLC
- 1042353873
- Author
- Amaral, Ana Luísa, 1956-2022, author.
- Title
- What's in a name / Ana Luísa Amaral ; translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa.
- Publisher
- New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, [2019]
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Language
- Portuguese and English on facing pages.
- Added Author
- Costa, Margaret Jull, translator.Amaral, Ana Luísa, 1956-2022. Poems. Selections. English.Amaral, Ana Luísa, 1956-2022. Poems. Selections.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 19-2576