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Wild Desire and Other Writings (Paperback)
Pedro Lemebel; Edited by Gwendolyn Harper; Translated by Gwendolyn Harper; Introduction by Gwendolyn Harper; Notes by Gwendolyn Harper; Foreword by …
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One of Elena Ferrante's Top 40 Books by Women G.H., a well-to-do
Rio sculptress, enters the room of her maid, which is as clear and
white 'as in an insane asylum from which dangerous objects have
been removed'. There she sees a cockroach - black, dusty,
prehistoric - crawling out of the wardrobe and, panicking, slams
the door on it. Her irresistible fascination with the dying insect
provokes a spiritual crisis, in which she questions her place in
the universe and her very identity, propelling her towards an act
of shocking transgression. Clarice Lispector's spare, deeply
disturbing yet luminous novel transforms language into something
otherworldly, and is one of her most unsettling and compelling
works. Clarice Lispector was a Brazilian novelist and short story
writer. Her innovation in fiction brought her international renown.
References to her literary work pervade the music and literature of
Brazil and Latin America. She was born in the Ukraine in 1920, but
in the aftermath of World War I and the Russian Civil War, the
family fled to Romania and eventually sailed to Brazil. She
published her first novel, Near to the Wildheart in 1943 when she
was just twenty-three, and the next year was awarded the Graça
Aranha Prize for the best first novel. Many felt she had given
Brazillian literature a unique voice in the larger context of
Portuguese literature. After living variously in Italy, the UK,
Switzerland and the US, in 1959, Lispector with her children
returned to Brazil where she wrote her most influential novels
including The Passion According to G.H. She died in 1977, shortly
after the publication of her final novel, The Hour of the Star.
In her most powerful book yet, award-winning writer Idra Novey has
conjured a novel of "astonishing and singular" honesty (Rumaan
Alam) with two determined, unforgettable female voices. Set in the
Allegheny Mountains of Appalachia, Take What You Need traces the
parallel lives of Jean, and her beloved but estranged stepdaughter,
Leah, who's sought a clean break from her rural childhood. In
Leah's urban life with her young family, she's revealed little
about Jean, how much she misses her stepmother's hard-won insights
and joyful lack of inhibition. But with Jean's death, Leah must
return to sort through what's been left behind. What Leah discovers
is staggering: Jean has filled the house with giant sculptures
she's welded from scraps of the area's industrial history. There's
also a young man now living in the house who's played an unknown
role in Jean's last years and in her art. With great verve and
humor, Idra Novey zeroes in on the joys and difficulty of family,
the ease with which we let distance mute conflict, and the power we
can draw from creative pursuits. Passionate and resonant, Take What
You Need explores the continuing mystery of the people we love
most, and what can be built from what others have discarded-art,
unexpected friendship, a new contentment of self. This is Idra
Novey at her very best.
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Take What You Need
Idra Novey
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The Passion According to G.H., Clarice Lispector s mystical
novel of 1964, concerns a well-to-do Rio sculptress, G.H., who
enters her maid s room, sees a cockroach crawling out of the
wardrobe, and, panicking, slams the door crushing the cockroach and
then watches it die. At the end of the novel, at the height of a
spiritual crisis, comes the most famous and most genuinely shocking
scene in Brazilian literature
Lispector wrote that of all her works this novel was the one
that best corresponded to her demands as a writer. "
In this cahier, American poet Idra Novey explores several notions
of translation through two sequences of poems. In the first
sequence, "Letters to C," she addresses the figure and the words of
a writer she has recently translated, Brazilian novelist Clarice
Lispector. In the second, "Regarding Marmalade, Cognates, and
Visitors," Novey looks at the connections between language,
translation, and the hosting of visitors, including her newborn
son. Idra Novey's texts are in conversation with works by the
artist Erica Baum - images of books that seem both to invite and
resist attempts to read them.
In her second collection, Idra Novey steps in and out of jails,
courthouses, and caves to explore what confinement means in the
twenty-first century. From the beeping doors of a prison in New
York to cellos playing in a former jail in Chile, she looks at
prisons that have opened, closed, and transformed to examine how
the stigma of incarceration has altered American families,
including her own. Novey writes of the expanding prison complex
that was once a field and imagines what's next for the civilians
who enter and exit it each day.
The Clean Shirt of It marks the first English translation of a
full-length poetry title by acclaimed Brazilian poet Paulo
Henriques Britto. As translator Idra Novey writes in her
introduction, "No other contemporary Brazilian poets write like
Britto. At least not with such a keen sense of the relationship
between form and content, or pop culture and high art." Paulo
Henriques Britto has received Brazil's most prestigious prizes for
literature and translation. He lives in Rio de Janeiro, where he
teaches at Catholic University. Idra Novey lives in New York City.
She received the 2005 Poetry Society of America New York Chapbook
Fellowship.
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