Salgado Maranhao Author

Salgado Maranhao: Salgado Maranhao is the author of nine collections of poems. His recent volume of new and selected poems, entitled A Cor da Palavra (The Color of the Word), was named the best book of poetry by the Brazilian Academy of Letters in 2011. Blood of the Sun was his first book to appear in English. Alexis Levitin: Alexis Levitin has translated thirty-one books of poetry, including Clarice Lispector's Soulstorm and Eugenio de Andrade's Forbidden Words. He is a Distinguished Professor at SUNY-Plattsburgh.