“For me, writing is as essential as breathing.” In our June Poet of the Month interview, Ana Luísa Amaral talks to Jacob Silkstone.
“it was being there, being so young/ and death so far off,/ when there were no dead no funeral processions,/ only the living, the laughter…” Poem of the Week (June 9), by Ana Luísa Amaral. Translated from Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa.
Original Portuguese text of Ana Luísa Amaral’s poem ‘Das Mais Puras Memórias’.