AVESSOS AVULSOS: A handful of poems by Salgado Maranhão

Alexis Levitin’s fifty books in translation include Clarice Lispector’s Soulstorm (1989) and Eugénio de Andrade’s Forbidden Words (2003), both from New Directions. He has published five collections of poetry by the Afro-Brazilian poet Salgado Maranhão: Blood of the Sun, Tiger Fur, Palavora, Mapping the Tribe, and Consecration of the Wolves. Other Brazilian works in translation include Astrid Cabral’s Cage and Gazing Through Water and Leonor Scliar-Cabral’s Consecration of the Aleph Bet. He has won two NEA Translation Fellowships and has been a translation resident at Banff, Canada, Straelen, Germany (twice), and at the Rockefeller Foundation at Bellagio, Italy.