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Natural Stories Museum

It's 2018 and I'm at my publisher's office. He's a friend and he's just returned from Mozambique, where he visited the National History Museum. He tells me about the collection's unique and coveted specimens, including elephant fetuses in several development stages. My publisher friend mentions...

It's 2018 and I'm at my publis...

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Dementi

Rain, finally a reason to go somewhere on vacation. A reason to leave the city. To demonstrate her that it still works without her, there are others, other cities where other mothers live, who also have beautiful daughters. Seville or Cadiz or even further down...

Rain, finally a reason to go s...

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on apartness:

(poems by Maria Fernandes after the photos and titles by Fedra Espiga Pinto)—11 months healinguntil deafness is curdleduntil curds are broken in all the measure of a blurred shadowuntil the gush of boiling lava – cervical witness – of the existence of—strange bodyat the centre inverse of a revealed essence:– flash and a...

(poems by Maria Fernandes afte...

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It’s blood, it’s universe

Gilda Nunes Barata has recently reissued through Lello the book Saudade, in a trilingual version (Portuguese, English and Spanish). A version that is much improved when compared to the 2001 counterpart, with the title “O que é a saudade, querido José Maria”.The current book’s hardcover and format, larger than...

Gilda Nunes Barata has recen...

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