No Gods Live Here: Poems

WINNER OF THE 2021 WORDS WITHOUT BORDERS--ACADEMY OF AMERICAN POETS POEMS IN TRANSLATION CONTESTNo Gods Live Here,...
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Author: Conceição Lima
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Language: English
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No Gods Live Here: Poems by Lima, Conceição

No Gods Live Here: Poems

$38.17

No Gods Live Here: Poems

$38.17
Author: Conceição Lima
Format: Paperback
Language: English

WINNER OF THE 2021 WORDS WITHOUT BORDERS--ACADEMY OF AMERICAN POETS POEMS IN TRANSLATION CONTEST


No Gods Live Here, the first book-length collection by a woman from São Tomé to appear in English, is grounded in the lush islands' history of slavery, colonialism, and independence.


A career-spanning collection from giant of Santomean poetry Conceição Lima, No Gods Live Here catalogues and memorializes the cruelties and triumphs of the country's past alongside the poet's own childhood poems set against the tiny island nation's distinctive flora and geography. Through vivid imagery, Lima evokes São Tomé and Príncipe, from popular Santomean music to imagery of fishermen on the beach, while remaining ever aware of the subjective meeting of memory, time, and place.


Through poetry, Lima unites past and present to resurrect hope in human creation and the possibility of metamorphosis.



Author: Conceição Lima
Publisher: Phoneme Media
Published: 04/16/2024
Pages: 225
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.84lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.58d
ISBN: 9781646053322

About the Author

Conceição Lima was born in 1961 in the island nation of São Tomé and Príncipe, where she resides today. She studied journalism in Portugal and attended graduate school in London, where she later worked as a producer at the BBC's Portuguese Language Service. She has published four books of poetry: O Útero da Casa (The Womb of the House) in 2004, A Dolorosa Raiz do Micondó (The Painful Root of the Micondó) in 2006, O País de Akendenguê (The Country of Akendenguê) in 2011, and Quando Florirem Salambás no Tecto do Pico (When Velvet Tamarinds Flower on Pico de São Tomé) in 2015. Her work in Shook's translation has appeared in the Literary Review, Jai-Alai, and World Literature Today.


Shook is a poet and translator whose work with Conceição Lima has been recognized with a 2017
Translation Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and as a winner of the 2021 Words
Without Borders--Academy of American Poets Poems in Translation Contest.


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