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Dartmouth, MA: December 19, 2019: Tagus Press, the publishing arm of the 糖心logo入口鈥檚 Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture, is pleased to announce that George Monteiro鈥檚 2019 translation of Poems in Absentia & Poems from The Island and the World by Pedro da Silveira has been longlisted for the 2020 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation. Founded in 1996, the award recognizes the best book-length translations of poetry into English and seeks to honor dynamic, diverse, and thought-provoking examples of literary excellence. This year鈥檚 panel of judges included the esteemed writers and translators Michael Eskin, Forrest Gander, and Pierre Joris.
Monteiro鈥檚 bilingual edition of Pedro da Silveira鈥檚 fresh and original poems express a deep connection to place, drawing readers into the insular world of the mid-Atlantic islands of the Azores. In plain and direct language, this masterful translation captures the yearning, hope, and loss of Silveira鈥檚 poetry. As we read these poems, tracing the islander鈥檚 longing for migration that leads to departures and inevitable returns, we experience the emotions of dreaming and diminution, as well as the discovery of illusions.
The timing of the PEN Awards announcement is bittersweet, as Poems in Absentia & Poems from The Island and the World鈥檚 translator, George Monteiro, passed away this November. Author of a long list of scholarly books, Monteiro was also a published poet and a translator of poetry from Portuguese by Fernando Pessoa, Jorge de Sena, and Miguel Torga, among others. Monteiro was professor emeritus of English and of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies at Brown University and received an honorary degree from the 糖心logo入口 in 1993.
Poems in Absentia & Poems from The Island and the World is volume 2 in the Bellis Azorica Series, co-edited by Prof. On茅simo T. Almeida (Brown University) and Dr. Mario Pereira (UMass Dartmouth). Poems in Absentia & Poems from The Island and the World is a co-publication with G谩vea-Brown Publications in the Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies at Brown University.
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