from At Your Feet

Ana Cristina Cesar (1952–1983) was one of the leading writers of Brazil’s marginal avant-garde; she worked in poetry and prose, as a translator and a journalist in the 1970s and early 1980s. Her work is known for its feminist subject matter and stylistic originality. Her long poetic sequence, A teus pés (At Your Feet), is forthcoming from Parlor Press/Free Verse Editions in 2018.

Brenda Hillman (b. 1951) is a poet, educator, editor, and activist; she is the author of ten collections of poetry with Wesleyan University Press, most recently Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire (2013), which received the Griffin International Poetry Prize, and Extra Hidden Life, Among the Days, forthcoming in 2018. Hillman serves as the Filippi Professor of Poetry at St. Mary’s College of California.

Helen Hillman was born in 1924 in São Paulo, Brazil, and came to the United States in the 1940s, where she lived and worked in Tucson, Arizona, as a homemaker, gardener, and translator. Her co-translations of Ana Cristina Cesar’s At Your Feet will be her first published book. She is a mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother, and currently lives in Princeton, New Jersey.

Sebastião Edson Macedo (b. 1974) is a Brazilian poet and scholar who is the author of three collections of poetry. He has collaborated with literary magazines in Brazil, translating Allen Ginsberg, Lee Harwood, Yehuda Amichai, Konstantino Kavafi, and Alejandro Crotto, among others. He is finishing his Ph.D. in Brazilian literature at University of California, Berkeley