Hallucinated City Rouse the Ruse and the Rush Poems between natural and human

Poems between natural and human history

whom Raúl Zurita called 'one of the finest

Griffin Poetry Prize) and Optic Subwoof (Pegasus Award in Poetry Criticism)

to the gradual broadening of horizons that culminated in the award of a Nobel Prize and the years of international acclaim that kept him heroically busy until his death

Fijn dat u luistert en Garderobe

Hallucinated City Rouse the Ruse and the Rush Poems between natural and humanMrio de Andrade (trans. Jack E. Tomlins) Often hailed as the Bible of Brazilian modernism, Mrio de Andrades Paulicia Desvairada (Hallucinated City) weaves together threads from French symbolist poetry, German expressionist painting, and musicology into a whirring tapestry of his beloved city of So Paulo, and answer and affront to the strains of Futurism so omnipresent at the time. It is reprinted here in the seminal translation of the late scholar