The Shadow’s Weight
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Author: Eugenio de Andrade
Translated by Alexis Levitin, 1996. ISBN 0-943722-23-3
Eugenio de Andrade is one of Portugal's most admired poets. The Shadow's Weight, Alexis Levitin's translation of de Andrade's poetic anthology O Peso da Sombra, offers the English-speaking world an opportunity to experience the imaginative work of a poet whose voice, the Spanish critic and writer Angel Crespo has said, “was born to bless the world.” Eugenio de Andrade's play with images of light and shadow enables him to explore the paradoxical human condition, in which we must simultaneously embrace both life and death. His deceptively and delightfully simple verse invites the reader to savor and embrace the energy and passion the poet finds pervading life.
Alexis Levitin is on the faculty of the State University of New York at Plattsburgh. He has translated the work of numerous Portuguese and Brazilian poets.
Eugenio de Andrade is one of Portugal's most admired poets. The Shadow's Weight, Alexis Levitin's translation of de Andrade's poetic anthology O Peso da Sombra, offers the English-speaking world an opportunity to experience the imaginative work of a poet whose voice, the Spanish critic and writer Angel Crespo has said, “was born to bless the world.” Eugenio de Andrade's play with images of light and shadow enables him to explore the paradoxical human condition, in which we must simultaneously embrace both life and death. His deceptively and delightfully simple verse invites the reader to savor and embrace the energy and passion the poet finds pervading life.
Alexis Levitin is on the faculty of the State University of New York at Plattsburgh. He has translated the work of numerous Portuguese and Brazilian poets.
