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20%OFFAdelia Prado - The Mystical Rose - 9781780372402 - V9781780372402
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The Mystical Rose

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Description for The Mystical Rose Paperback. First UK edition of one of Brazil's leading poets. Translator(s): Watson, Ellen Dore. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 163 x 11. Weight in Grams: 298.
Adelia Prado was "discovered" she was nearly 40 by Brazil's foremost modern poet, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, who was astonished to read her 'phenomenal' poems, launching her literary career with his announcement that St Francis was dictating verses to a housewife in the provincial backwater of Minas Gerais. Psychiatrists in droves made the pilgrimage to Divinopolis to delve into the psyche of this devout Catholic who wrote startlingly pungent poems of and from the body; they were politely served coffee and sent back to the city. After publishing her first collection, Baggage, in 1976, she went on to become one ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780372402
SKU
V9781780372402
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About Adelia Prado
Adelia Luzia Prado de Freitas (Adelia Prado) was born in 1935 and has lived all her life in the provincial, industrial city of Divinopolis, in Minas Gerais (General Mines), the Brazilian state that has produced more presidents and poets than any other in the country. She was the only one in her family of labourers to see the ocean, to ... Read more

Reviews for The Mystical Rose
'The life captured in Prado's poems is convulsive: from a dark corner of despair she can rocket to pure joy in one line. All the contradictions, paradoxes, and dualities of our lives thrive here. This is poetry at its hottest and most naked, beautiful poetry of the body and soul' - James Tate. 'Adelia Prado's most recent collection of poems, ... Read more

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