Mirror-City

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Author: Nicholas Behr Translator: Jon Woodward Publisher: The Economy Press (2022) Mirror-City is a collection of new and selected poems by Nicolas Behr - “Brasília’s poet” - who w as imprisoned in 1978 by the Department of Political and Social Order in an attempt to silence him and his writing. Upon his release, Behr reported that his plans included buying a megaphone so that he could speak louder.Behr’s work summons the spectral “braxília,” the city that Brasília could have been - incorporating an x where the city’s major arteries cross into the name itself - where the “wings” and “body” meet.Translated by Jon Woodward and authorized by the author, Mirror-City includes work ranging from the late 1970s to the present, as well as six new pieces.Portuguese originals and English translations appear on facing pages. Show more