For the first time, Billie J. Maciunas’s fine English translations provide an ample selection of the great Portuguese poet Florbela Espanca's (1894 - 1930) sonnets. Our Book is a song of the self—a proclamation of love, torment, and erotic exaltation—all intricately linked to the poet's life, mythologized as it transgressed the lot of women in Portuguese society. Long in the making and lovingly crafted, this book marks an important milestone, one well overdue, in the making of Florbela Espanca's literary reputation.
