One Impossible Step
Description
In her lifetime, Orides Fontela resisted all labels, all attempts to situate her work in a particular movement, school, tendency, or tradition. Here, in her first ever English-language collection, Fontela's poetry continues to defy easy categorization. In these concise, meditative poems, Fontela's bird and flower, water and stone, blood and star can be read as symbols, indicating a possible tendency toward mysticism. Including an illuminating statement of poetics and excerpts from her often acerbic interviews, One Impossible Step introduces English-language audiences to an iconoclast who remains one across languages and decades.
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Persons
Chris Daniels is a prolific, widely published, autodidact and feral translator of global Lusophone poetry. Recent translations include a black body by Lubi Prates (Nueva York Poetry Press, 2020) and The Hammer by Adelaide Ivánova (Commune Editions, 2019). He lives in Oakland, California.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- from Transposition (1969)
- from Helianthus (1973)
- from Alba (1983)
- from Rosace (1986)
- from Web (1996)
- Poetics
- On Poetry and Philosophy-A Testimony
- On the Way to Clover
- Extracts from Interviews with Orides Fontela
- Afterword by Ricardo Domeneck
- Translator's Note
- Acknowledgments
- Bibliography
- About the Authors
- Nightboat Books
