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Monday, December 19

VOID ODYSSEY

Void Odyssey

Renato Negrão

translated from the Brazilian Portuguese

by Sarah Rebecca Kersley



 

unpaginated, paper, staple-bound.

Toad Press/Veliz Books, 2022. $6.00

Cover design: Daniel Minchoni, with an illustration by Marcos Gom.

You can purchase a copy of Void Odyssey from Veliz Books.


Renato Negrão (b. 1968, Belo Horizonte, Brazil), is a poet, composer, visual artist, performer, art-educator, and curator. His work focuses on poetic communication and contemporary art strategies as pedagogical tools. He has published seven books of poetry and has performed at festivals such as Arte Digital, Arte Negra, MIP– Manifestação Internacional de Performance, and Dissidents XXVI, among others. He has composed songs in partnership with a number of Brazilian contemporary musicians, and his work has appeared in translation in Spanish, French, German, and English.


Sarah Rebecca Kersley is a translator, poet, and editor, originally from the UK and based in Brazil for nearly two decades. Her work has appeared in places such as Asymptote Journal, Denver Quarterly, Isele Magazine, Washington Square Review, and elsewhere. She co-runs Livraria Boto-cor-de-rosa/Paralelo13S, a bookshop and small press focused on contemporary literature, in the city of Salvador, where she is based.
 

"Negrão’s poem pushes the limits of poetry and poetic communication by relying not only on the word and sound, but also on silence and on the empty space of the blank page" - Cristina Pinto-Bailey for Action Books, Sept 2023. Read the full review in the Action Books blog at https://actionbooks.org/2023/09/september-2023-action-books-micro-reviews-of-poetry-in-translation/.