Brazilian writer and translator nina rizzi has just published a collection of poetry in both English and Portuguese through a partnership between publishers PS Guelph and PS São Paulo. The book features one poem that was previously published in English in ArtsEverywhere’s poetry series. Ten Poems is available now through the Publication Studios website.
nina rizzi is the author of several books of poetry in Portuguese including tambores pra n’zinga, sereia no copo d’água, diáspora não é lar, and the children’s books A Melhor Mãe do Mundo and Elza, A Voz do Milênio. She is also a renowned contemporary translator who has deftly handled the words of bell hooks, Alice Walker, and James Baldwin, to name a few, bringing their work to a Portuguese-reading public.
In this book, rizzi’s ten poems appear opposite their Portuguese counterparts in black and grey on creamy pages all wrapped in a gestural ink drawing by the book’s editor and designer, Steph Yates. The book also features a foreword by Fernanda Meireles.
