Antônio Moura's third collection plays with both experimental and traditional poetic styles, giving it a powerful mythic reach and a bizarre, neo-Baroque flavour. Life in these poems appears as uncanny, mysterious, something to be faced by the individual. There is a tension between spiritual insight and the sordid realities of life, between the world of today and that of previous eras, between the wider picture and the intensely personal. With an Introduction by David Treece, Professor in Brazilian Studies at Kings College, London. Antônio Moura is considered to be among the strongest Brazilian poets writing today, and is one of the youngest poets to appear in Nothing the Sun Could Not Explain: 20 Contemporary Brazilian Poets (2004). Moura has published two previous books of original poetry in Brazil as well as a Portuguese translation of the Madagascan poet Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo. Stefan Tobler's poems and translations have appeared in many magazines, including Shearsman, Ambit and Poetry Wales.
Antonio Moura is considered to be among the most important of Brazilian poets writing today, and is one of the youngest poets appearing in Nothing the Sun Could Not Explain: 20 Contemporary Brazilian Poets (2nd edition; 2003). Moura has published two previous books of original poetry in Brazil as well as a translation into Portuguese of the Madagascan poet Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo.
The conveying of a poet into another language can be talked through in various ways. Stefan Tobler's preface caught hold of me by its enthusiasm, pleasure in the work, and that he cares. The translator's practical invitation and his conveying the pleasure of the task is, so far as I can tell, brought to fruition in his translations. David Hart Stride Magazine 2012
Antônio Moura's third collection plays with both experimental and traditional poetic styles, giving it a powerful mythic reach and a bizarre, neo-Baroque flavour. Life in these poems appears as uncanny, mysterious, something to be faced by the individual. There is a tension between spiritual insight and the sordid realities of life, between the world of today and that of previous eras, between the wider picture and the intensely personal. With an Introduction by David Treece, Professor in Brazilian Studies at Kings College, London. Antônio Moura is considered to be among the strongest Brazilian poets writing today, and is one of the youngest poets to appear in Nothing the Sun Could Not Explain: 20 Contemporary Brazilian Poets (2004). Moura has published two previous books of original poetry in Brazil as well as a Portuguese translation of the Madagascan poet Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo. Stefan Tobler's poems and translations have appeared in many magazines, including Shearsman, Ambit and Poetry Wales.
Antonio Moura is considered to be among the most important of Brazilian poets writing today, and is one of the youngest poets appearing in Nothing the Sun Could Not Explain: 20 Contemporary Brazilian Poets (2nd edition; 2003). Moura has published two previous books of original poetry in Brazil as well as a translation into Portuguese of the Madagascan poet Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo.
The conveying of a poet into another language can be talked through in various ways. Stefan Tobler's preface caught hold of me by its enthusiasm, pleasure in the work, and that he cares. The translator's practical invitation and his conveying the pleasure of the task is, so far as I can tell, brought to fruition in his translations. David Hart Stride Magazine 2012