What's in a Name

With the elliptical looping of a butterfly alighting on ones sleeve, the poems of Ana Luisa Amaral arrive as small hypnotic miracles. Spare and beautiful in a way reminiscent both of Szymborska and of Emily Dickinson (it comes as no surprise that Amaral is the leading Portuguese translator of Dickinson), these poemsin Margaret Jull Costas gorgeous English versionsseamlessly interweave the everyday with the dreamlike and ask Whats in a name?