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Many thanks to the historic Grolier Poetry Book Shop for hosting a sold-out reading / release on Wednesday. MIRROR-CITY IS NOW AVAILABLE.

(It’s a really special book).

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MIRROR-CITY is a collection of new and selected poems by Nicolas Behr - “Brasília’s poet” - who was imprisoned in 1978 in an attempt to silence him and his writing.

Behr’s work summons the spectral “braxília,” the city that Brasília could have been - incorporating an X where the city’s major arteries cross into the name itself - where the “wings” and “body” meet.

Translated by Jon Woodward and authorized by the author, MIRROR-CITY includes work ranging from the late 1970s to the present, as well as six new pieces.

Portuguese originals and English translations appear on facing pages.

Published: October 26, 2022

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MIRROR-CITY is a collection of new and selected poems by Nicolas Behr - “Brasília’s poet” - who was imprisoned in 1978 by the Brazilian military dictatorship in an attempt to silence him and his writing. Upon release, Behr reported that his future plans included buying a megaphone so that he could speak louder.

Behr’s work summons the spectral “braxília,” the city that Brasília could have been - incorporating an X where the city’s major arteries cross into the name itself - where the “wings” and “body” meet.

Translated by Jon Woodward and authorized by the author, MIRROR-CITY includes work ranging from the late 1970s to the present, as well as six new pieces.

Portuguese originals and English translations appear on facing pages.

Author: Nicolas Behr Translator: Jon Woodward Booklet, 56 pp, 7 x 5.25 in Language: English / Portuguese ISBN: 978-1-7375909-5-8

Pre-Release Sale - 25% Off - $11.25

Author: Anthony Opal

Booklet, 24 pp, 7 x 5.25 in

Language: English

ISBN: 978-1-7356630-1-2

Published: August 26, 2020

Matsuo Basho is the earliest and most revered of the great haiku masters. His impact on the form remains unmatched as his thinking continues to influence artists, philosophers, and students of aesthetics.

Suffering from depression and a persistent sense of loneliness, Basho’s work embodies wabi-sabi. While difficult to articulate, wabi-sabi, for Basho, concerns the pursuit of simplicity - “lightness” - and the beauty of loneliness, “akin to, but deeper than, nostalgia.”

Poems of Matsuo Basho is a short and varied collection of Basho’s haiku. Each translation is accompanied by the original Japanese text and English transliteration (romaji).

Author: Matsuo Basho Translator: Anthony Opal Booklet, 12 pp, 7 x 5.25 in Language: Japanese / English ISBN: 978-1-7356630-5-0 Published: September 18, 2020