Rilke Shake(Reprint) by Angélica Freitas, HilaryKaplan Paperback, 124 Pages, Published 2015 by Phoneme Media ISBN-13: 978-1-939419-54-5, ISBN: 1-939419-54-9
"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.” Hilar ..."
"Rilke Shake’s title, a pun on milkshake, which in Brazil’s vernacular means just what it does in English, indicates the book’s contents: poetry approached as a shake of languages, words, canonical tradition, and a measure of delight, ..."
"Poetry. Translated by Hilary Kaplan. Airports, backpacks, dictionaries, hemispheres, THE TERRITORY IS NOT THE MAP is a journey across Marília Garcia's poetry. The distance between territory and map, a journey and the language used to write about it, the distance between languages. There is no straight line from one to the other-here there is displacement. Garcia takes on this displacement, exposes it by cutting, pasting, dismantling wor ..."
"46750 is a visual account of Rio de Janeiro during the last decade, a portrait of the so-called "wonder city," with all its contrasts and complexities. 46,750 is also the number of homicides that occurred in Rio de Janeiro's metropolitan area during the decade between 2007 and 2016, the time during which João Pina worked there; that's an average of 13 homicides per day. Over the years, material from this body of work has been published ..."