{"product_id":"galaxias-udp","title":"galáxias","description":"\u003cp\u003eBegun in 1963 and only published in its final form in 1984, \u003cem\u003egaláxias\u003c\/em\u003e is a\u003cem\u003e sui generis\u003c\/em\u003e work. As Haroldo de Campos (1929–2003) himself wrote: “An audiovideotext, a videotextgame, the \u003cem\u003egaláxias\u003c\/em\u003e situate themselves on the border between prose and poetry. In this kaleidoscopic book, there’s an epic, narrative gesture—mini-stories that come together and dissolve like the ‘suspense’ of a detective novel … but the image remains, the vision or calling of the epiphanic.” A series of 50 “galactic cantos”—in homage to both Dante and Pound—de Campos likewise follows James Joyce’s cue in conceiving of \u003cem\u003egaláxias\u003c\/em\u003e as a “defense and illustration” of the Portuguese language and its poetic possibilities. The text incorporates literary allusion, citation, and words and phrases in at least a dozen languages, making \u003cem\u003egaláxias\u003c\/em\u003e a formidable experiment in polyglot poetry. \u003cem\u003egaláxias\u003c\/em\u003e charts the literal and literary journeys de Campos undertook from the early 1950s on. Arguably his chief poetic accomplishment, \u003cem\u003egaláxias\u003c\/em\u003e is also a landmark in world avant-garde poetics. [publishers’ note]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTranslated by Odile Cisneros with Suzanne Jill Levine, Charles A. Perrone, Norman Maurice Potter \u0026amp; Christopher Middleton.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eForeword by Odile Cisneros.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ugly Duckling Presse","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57358349730132,"sku":"A8B-37505","price":20.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1072\/9609\/6596\/files\/galaxias.jpg?v=1790814872","url":"https:\/\/after8books.com\/products\/galaxias-udp","provider":"After 8 Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}