Ana Luisa Amaral is considered to be one of the foremost Portuguese
poets of her day, and although her poetry has been translated into
many other languages, this is the first major collection of her
poems to be published in English. Born in Oporto in 1956, and, for
many years, Professor of Anglo-American Literature at the
University of Oporto, Ana Luisa Amaral published her first
collection of poems, Minha Senhora de Que, in 1990, and has since
published many more, along with plays, children's literature, a
novel and translations from English. Her work has brought her many
prizes both in Portugal and elsewhere. Her poems are resolutely
female, but she casts her net very wide in terms of subject matter,
from tender poems about her daughter to thoughts provoked by
finding a crumb lodged in the pages of a second-hand book to
musings about Galileo, the theory of relativity and the larger
themes of loneliness, loss, and death. She is a writer immersed in
her own culture, but steeped, too, in the poetry, for example, of
Emily Dickinson and Shakespeare, and in the world of the Bible and
the Greek myths. The result is a poetry that takes equal pleasure
in the physical and metaphysical, playing with words and ideas, a
poetry that is always refreshingly oblique, taking the reader down
unexpected intellectual and linguistic paths. Her poetry invites
readers to share her own wonder and perplexity at life's joys and
griefs.
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