2013
First Published
4.40
Average Rating
138
Number of Pages
Poetry. Translated from the Portuguese by Ellen Dore Watson. "Adelia Prado's most recent collection of poems, once more in Ellen Dore Watson's superbly energetic and natural English, is nothing like any poetry I know in our present moment. Her humor, her dancing solidity, her joy in being alive I think back to Chaucer, and the poems of Grace Paley. Prado is similarly voluble, playful, down to earth, and cheerful; and she seems to have an uncannily easy-going, even merry relationship with God and all his family. She has given us a perfectly crystalline ex-voto." Jean Valentine"
Avg Rating
4.40
Number of Ratings
35
5 STARS
63%
4 STARS
20%
3 STARS
11%
2 STARS
6%
1 STARS
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Author
Adelia Prado
Author · 11 books
Adélia Luzia Prado Freitas, is a Brazilian writer and poet. Started writing at the age of 40 which is relatively late in life for a poet. Although much of her outlook is religious, deeply Catholic, her works are often about the body. Adélia Prado's poems were translated into English by Ellen Watson and published in a book entitled, The Alphabet in the Park. (Wesleyan University Press, 1990). From Wikipedia
