Rilke Shake

Rilke Shake's title, a pun on milkshake, means in Portuguese just what it does in English. With...
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Author: Angélica Freitas
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Language: English
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Rilke Shake by Freitas, Angélica

Rilke Shake

$36.25

Rilke Shake

$36.25
Author: Angélica Freitas
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Rilke Shake's title, a pun on milkshake, means in Portuguese just what it does in English. With frenetic humor and linguistic innovation, Angélica Freitas constructs a temple of delight to celebrate her own literary canon. In this whirlwind debut collection, first published in Portuguese in 2007, Gertrude Stein passes gas in her bathtub, a sushi chef cries tears of Suntory Whisky, and Ezra Pound is kept "insane in a cage in pisa." Hilary Kaplan's translation is as contemporary and lyrical as the Portuguese-language original, a considerable feat considering the collection's breakneck pace.


WINNER OF THE 2016 BEST TRANSLATED BOOK AWARD!


WINNER OF THE 2016 NATIONAL TRANSLATION AWARD!


FINALIST FOR THE 2016 PEN POETRY TRANSLATION PRIZE!


"No fabled saudade here, but the sound of an ocarina underwater in the Orinoco." -Paul Hoover


"Wry, painfully funny and moving, Kaplan's translation captures the formal invention and deadpan beauty of the original perfectly." -Sasha Dugdale



Author: Angélica Freitas
Publisher: Phoneme Media
Published: 03/24/2015
Pages: 124
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 6.80h x 4.90w x 0.30d
ISBN: 9781939419545


Award: Literary Award - Finalist

About the Author
Angélica Freitas (b. 1973) is the author of Rilke shake (Cosac Naify, 2007) and Um útero é do tamanho de um punho (Cosac Naify, 2012). Her graphic novel, Guadalupe (2012), published by Companhia das Letras, was illustrated by Odyr Bernardi. Freitas's poems have been translated and published in German, Spanish, Swedish, Romanian, and English. She was awarded a Programa Petrobras Cultural writing fellowship in 2009. Freitas co-edits the poetry journal Modo de Usar & Co. and lives in Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.

Hilary Kaplan's translations of Brazilian poetry and fiction have been featured in Modern Poetry in Translation, PEN America, and on BBC Radio 4. Her writing on Brazilian poetry and poetics appears in eLyra, Jacket2, Rascunho, and the collection Deslocamentos Críticos. She holds an M.F.A. from San Francisco State University. She received a 2011 PEN Translation Fund grant for her translation of Rilke Shake. Kaplan lives in Los Angeles.



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