Amaral Ana Luisa Bücher

Einfühlsam und scharfsinnig – Ana Luísa Amarals Poesie der Details„Was ist ein Name?“, fragt Ana Luísa Amaral, die beliebteste Lyrikerin Portugals und eine der großen Dichterinnen unserer Zeit. In einer klarsichtigen Sprache, die in der Tradition von Dickinson und Szymborska steht, leistet sie ihren Offenbarungseid: Worte können nichts festhalten, außer der Flüchtigkeit der Dinge. „Ich bin eine Frau von gar nichts / nicht einmal Besitzerin meiner selbst“, beschreibt sie sich in einem Gedicht. Amarals Poesie spürt in den kleinsten Episoden des Alltags – ob es um eine zerquetschte Mücke geht oder um eine Schüssel, die zerbricht –, der traumhaften Essenz des Lebens nach, jenem Nichts, das im Klangraum der Worte sich schließlich in Fülle umkehrt.Ana Luísa Amaral, 1956 in Portugal geboren, hat in Lissabon Anglistik studiert und über Emily Dickinson promoviert. Sie unterrichtet Englische Literatur an der Universität von Porto. 1990 debütierte sie als Lyrikerin. Seither hat sie zahlreiche Gedichtbände veröffentlicht. Bei Hanser erschien zuletzt Was ist ein Name (Lyrik Kabinett, 2021).

The first major collection of the poems of Ana Luisa Amaral to be published in English, considered to be one of the foremost Portuguese poets of her day. With a translation by acclaimed translator Margaret Jull Costa.

Ana Lu sa Amaral, one of Portugal's most acclaimed contemporary writers, was born in Lisbon in 1956. A scholar of Anglo-American literatures with a doctoral dissertation on Emily Dickinson, she published her first collection of poetry, Minha Senhora de Qu (Mistress of What), in 1990. The Art of Being a Tiger offers a representative selection of Amaral's poems, from the 1990s to the present, in a precise and luminous translation by Margaret Jull Costa. The collection highlights the poet's manifold intertextual engagements -- from Portugal's literary giants, Lu s de Cam es and Fernando Pessoa, to landmarks of second-wave feminist theorizing such as Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar's The Madwoman in the Attic. It foregrounds Amaral's passionate attentiveness to the here and now, as likely to result in transformative explorations of everyday scenarios of domesticity as to lead the poet to confront large-scale political crises of her day. Such is the capacious receptivity of Amaral's art of thereness, with its responsive capability always already disciplined by a poetics that is at once formally demanding and deeply idiosyncratic, and its artfulness always already in the process of yielding to the unpredictable pressures of the real.

Winner of the Premio Reina Sofia for Poetry Poems of effervescent grace from one of the best-known and best-loved poets of Portugal

In November 2019, 30 famous poets from various countries will be in Hong Kong and ten cities in China afterwards to read their works based on the theme Speech and Silence. Ana Luisa Amaral (Portugal) has published over thirty books of poetry, a play, a novel, essays, and several books for children.