Ex-Voto: Poems by Adelia Prado

By Adélia Prado

"Ad lia Prado's most recent collection of poems, once more in Ellen Dor Watson's superbly energetic and natural English, is nothing like any poetry I know in our present moment. Her humor, her dancing solidity, her joy in being alive -- I think back to Chaucer, and the poems of Grace Paley. Prado is similarly voluble, playful, down to earth, and cheerful; and she seems to have an uncannily easy-going, even merry relationship with God and all his family. She has given us a perfectly crystalline ex-voto."--Jean Valentine. Ex-Voto is the second collection of Prado's poetry translated by Ellen Dor Watson. Their previous collaborative volume, The Alphabet in the Park: Selected Poems (Wesleyan University Press, 1990), was abundantly praised: "The life captured in Prado's poems is convulsive: from a dark corner of despair she can rocket to pure joy in one line... This is poetry at its hottest and most naked..."--James Tate

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1936797305
• ISBN13: 9781936797301
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: Tupelo Press
• Length: 138 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.4"