galáxias Rosa Knorringa that celebrates the carnal life

that celebrates the carnal life

and natural disaster—and sees a “crop of eyes” peering back

black and brown women are simultaneously the body politic and the body ecstatic

being translated and transformed by love

and the scope of the day widens further

galáxias Rosa Knorringa that celebrates the carnal lifeHaroldo de Campos (trans. Odile Cisneros) Begun in 1963 and only published in its final form in 1984, galxias is a sui generis work. As Haroldo de Campos himself wrote: An audiovideotext, a videotextgame, the galxias situate themselves on the border between prose and poetry. In this kaleidoscopic book, theres an epic, narrative gesturemini stories that come together and dissolve like the suspense of a detective novel but the image remains, the vision