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WORLD MAP OF PORTUGUESE

Sibila / 25 abr 2009 / Poetry/Essays

WORLD MAP OF PORTUGUESEAngolaBrazilCape VerdeDadra / Damão / Diu / Goa / Nagar Haveli (India)Guinea-BissauMacao (China)MozambiquePortugalSão Tomé e PríncipeEast TimorLEARN ABOUT PORTUGUESE LANGUAGEMORE PEOPLE SPEAK PORTUGUESE THAN FRENCH, GERMAN, ITALIAN [...]

ONE CONCEPT OF SIBILA

Sibila / 18 abr 2009 / Poetry/Essays

Régis Bonvicino talks with SIBILA PETLEVSKI, September, 4th, 2006-09-04 RB: Why did your parents name you Sibila? SP: It was my mom's idea. But, let me first tell you that [...]

THE RENAISSANCE OF 1910

Sibila / 18 abr 2009 / Poetry/Essays

THE RENAISSANCE OF 1910 Reflections on Guy Davenport’s Poetics Marjorie Perloff   Again and again, in the essays collected in The Geography of the Imagination (1981), Guy Davenport refers to [...]

MAKING THINGS DIFFICULT

Sibila / 18 abr 2009 / Poetry/Essays

MESSERLI AND BERNSTEIN, 2004 MAKING THINGS DIFFICULT September 7-12, 2004   BERNSTEIN: Many of your poems are written, as you put it, “after” other poems. Can you talk about the [...]

THE COFFEE SONG

Sibila / 18 abr 2009 / Poetry/Essays

Frank Sinatra recorded it for Columbia in 1946 and for Reprise in 1960.     THE COFFEE SONG WAV  –  MP3   Way down among Brazilians Coffee beans grow by the billions [...]

DEFINITIONS OF BRAZIL

Sibila / 18 abr 2009 / Poetry/Essays

DEFINITIONS OF BRAZIL Charles Bernstein and Régis Bonvicino (June 2006)   Brazil is located on the southern tears of the Americas Brazil is a jungle with snakes who eat cakes [...]

PORTUGUESE LANGUAGE

Sibila / 18 abr 2009 / Poetry/Essays

PORTUGUESE LANGUAGE LÍNGUA PORTUGUESA OLAVO BILAC (1865-1918) Translated into English by Odile Cisneros   Latium’s last flower, lovely and wild, You are at once splendor and tomb: Native gold, the [...]

SONG OF EXILE

Sibila / 18 abr 2009 / Poetry/Essays

SONG OF EXILE GONÇALVES DIAS (1823-1864) Translated into English by Odile Cisneros Song of exile from First Songs, 1847 My land has swaying palms Where the sabiá bird sings; The [...]