Hallucinated City The Territory Is Not the Map

Hallucinated City The Territory Is Not the MapMrio de Andrade (trans. Jack E. Tomlins) Often hailed as the Bible of Brazilian modernism, Mrio de Andrades Paulicia Desvairada (Hallucinated City) weaves together threads from French symbolist poetry, German expressionist painting, and musicology into a whirring tapestry of his beloved city of So Paulo, and answer and affront to the strains of Futurism so omnipresent at the time. It is reprinted here in the seminal translation of the late scholar

and a critical introduction by poet Mark Nowak

mountains made of olive stones

"The subtlest feeling for the measure that I encounter anywhere except in the verses of Ezra Pound

interrogates the experience of occupation and the meaning of liberation

koloniale trauma’s en het ware gezicht van het Britse vreemdelingenbeleid

Drawing extensively on Iranian poetic traditions and the history of their reception in English translation

door de geur ervan bedwelmd

The Book of Frank is one of the crucial poetic works of this century so far

wat herinneringen

and the human condition

Buiten het dossier zijn er bijdragen van Kathrin Röggla

She discusses the philosophies that guide her as a writer