
The Mystical Rose
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'The life captured in Prado's poems is convulsive: from a dark corner of despair she can rocket to pure joy in one line. All the contradictions, paradoxes, and dualities of our lives thrive here. This is poetry at its hottest and most naked, beautiful poetry of the body and soul' - James Tate. 'Adelia Prado's most recent collection of poems, once more in Ellen Dore Watson's superbly energetic and natural English, is nothing like any poetry I know in our present moment. Her humour, her dancing solidity, her joy in being alive - I think back to Chaucer, and the poems of Grace Paley. Prado is similarly voluble, playful, down to earth, and cheerful; and she seems to have an uncannily easy-going, even merry relationship with God and all his family. She has given us a perfectly crystalline ex-voto' - Jean Valentine. 'A major poet of the Americas. In Watson's hands, Prado's work arrives in English as if it had never left Portuguese. I send - bouquets of gratitude' - Carolyn Forche. 'Adelia Prado's poetry is a poetry of abundance. These poems overflow with the humble, grand, various stuff of daily life - necklaces, bicycles, fish; saints and prostitutes and presidents; innumerable chickens and musical instruments - And, seemingly at every turn, there is food' - Ellen Dore Watson.More details
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- Cover
- Description
- Title Page
- Contents
- Introduction by ELLEN DORE WATSON
- Acknowledgements
- from BAGGAGE (1976)
- Dysrhythmia
- Successive Deaths
- Vigil
- With Poetic Licence
- Before Names
- Lesson
- Guide
- Head
- Two Ways
- Praise for a Colour
- Purple
- Seductive Sadness Winks at Me
- Window
- Heart's Desire
- The Girl with the Sensitive Nose
- Seduction
- At Customs
- Easter
- Love Song
- Serenade
- from THE HEADLONG HEART (1978)
- Concerted Effort
- Not Even One Line in December
- Day
- A Man Inhabited a House
- Lineage
- A Good Cause
- A Fast One
- Absence of Poetry
- Blossoms
- Young Girl in Bed
- The Black Umbrella
- Passion
- Neighbourhood
- Murmur
- Dénouement
- from LAND OF THE HOLY CROSS (1981)
- The Alphabet in the Park
- Trottoir
- Pieces for a Stained-Glass Window
- Land of the Holy Cross
- Falsetto
- Some Other Names for Poetry
- Tyrants
- Love in the Ether
- Consecration
- Legend with the Word Map
- Professional Mourner
- Mobiles
- from THE PELICAN (1987)
- Fibrillations
- Lily-like
- The Mystical Rose
- The Sphinx
- The Transfer of the Body
- God Does Not Reject the Work of His Hands
- Object of Affection
- Responsory
- Eternal Life
- Sleeping Beauty
- Heraldry
- The Birth of the Poem
- Two O'Clock in the Afternoon in Brazil
- The Dark of Night
- Nigredo
- The Good Shepherd
- Divine Wrath
- The Holy Face
- The Battle
- Ardent Memory
- The Third Way
- Sketchbook
- Syllabication
- Crazy Behaviour
- Furious with Jonathan
- The Sacrifice
- The Pelican
- Silly Girl
- from KNIFE IN THE CHEST (1988)
- Biography of the Poet
- The Meticulous One
- Laetitia Cordis
- History
- Immolation
- Opus Dei
- In Portuguese
- Parameter
- Words and Names
- The Tenacious Devil Who Doesn't Exist
- Matter
- Form
- Lighter Than Air
- Guess
- One More Time
- Letter
- Note from the Daring Damsel
- One Thing After Another
- Marvels
- Trinity
- The Last Supper
- Pastorals
- The Hermit's Apprentice
- from ORACLES OF MAY (1999)
- The Poet Wearies
- God's Assistant
- Salve Regina
- Buried Treasure
- Staccato
- Domus
- A Good Death
- Poem for a Girl Apprentice
- On Love
- Portunhol
- Nap with Flowers
- Mediation Verging on a Poem
- Mural
- Our Lady of Conception
- Mater Dolorosa
- Chamberpot
- Invitational
- Christ's Passion
- Application for Adoption
- Woman at Nightfall
- Meditation of the King Among His Troops
- Rebuke of Pride
- October
- Human Rights
- Just Like a Man
- Ex-Voto
- Anamnesis
- Holy Icon
- Saint Christopher Transit
- Spiritual Exercise
- The State of May
- Neopelican
- About the Author
- Copyright
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