Ex-Voto: Poems of Adélia Prado (Tupelo Press Poetry in Translation)

Synopsis

Poetry. Translated From The Portuguese By Ellen Doré Watson. Adélia Prado's Most Recent Collection Of Poems, Once More In Ellen Doré 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