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Oficina de escrita

Investigações sobre a mulher e a poesia

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An open seminar with Angélica Freitas, as part of the Colloquium on Brazil

Wednesday, October 9, 2019
3:00 PM1301 Rolfe Hall
UCLA
Los Angeles, CA 90095

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Angélica Freitas (Pelotas, Brazil, 1973) is the author of two books of poetry, Rilkeshake (Phoneme Press), translated by Hilary Kaplan and winner of the Best Translated Book Award and of the National Translation Award in 2016, and Um útero é do tamanho de um punho (A uterus is the size of the fist), chosen best book of poetry in 2012 by Associação Paulista de Critics de Arte. As a writer, she has also worked in collaboration with Brazilian artists such as Nuno Ramos and Odyr Bernardi, as well as musicians Juliana Perdigão and Vitor Ramil. Freitas's poems have been published in magazines such as Poetry, Granta and Modern Poetry in Translation

Event is in Portuguese and part of course Portuguese 290: Linguagem, Experimentalismo e Interdisciplinaridade na Literatura Brasileira.

Cost: Free & Open to the Public


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Sponsor(s): Center for Brazilian Studies, Spanish and Portuguese, Center for Brazilian Studies, Department of Spanish and Portuguese