BRAZILIAN POETRY 1950–1980
Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1983. First edition. Hardcover bound in gray cloth with title foil-stamped in silver along spine, red endpapers, and pages printed in black. Housed in a glossy dust jacket printed in red and black. 187 + 3 pp.
Comprehensive anthology of experimental and traditional poetry from Brazil edited by Emanuel Brasil and William Jay Smith. With contributions by Jorge Mautner, Ferreira Gullar, Haroldo de Campos, Mário Faustino, Augusto de Campos, Décio Pignatari, and Lindolf Bell. Includes an in-depth introduction by the two editors, short biographies of contributing artists, parallel translations of poems from Portuguese into English, several examples of visual and concrete poetry, and a bibliography of books published on the contributing artists.
Dust jacket with rubbing, age toning, and faint sunning to spine. Book with a small area of faint staining at inside left cover and darkening along text block. Very good. Item 1167.
Price: $40.00