Poetry and prose from some of Brazil's most profound writers appears on the page in the original Portuguese and in English translation, underscoring the importance of translation as an act of seeing and understanding.A must-read for those seeking to expand their global world view of queer life and literature.' -Emily Dziuban, Booklist 'This eclectic bilingual anthology from queer Brazilian writers, both living and dead, is as expansive and full of life as the country itself.enticing and poignant.' -Publishers Weekly 'A lively collection.American readers will easily connect with the universality of queer experiences portrayed, from romance, to coming out, to struggling with identity and with AIDS, but will find them enlivened and made fresh again by uniquely Brazilian details.' -Passport 'A concise and enlightening overview of the last fifty years of LGBTQ literature from South America's largest country.

'This anthology of translations is as much a gift as a collection, attempting to encapsulate the multitude of experiences that make up queer Brazil. what we make lying down is also revolution. Spanning four decades, and featuring a total of thirteen writers, Cuíer reminds us again, as Natalia Affonso says in her translation of Tatiana Nascimento's poem. And Caio Fernando Abreu sits in a hospital dying of AIDS, meeting with angels and writing letters in which he repeats 'all I can do is write' like a mantra. Poet Angélica Freitas details a disturbingly familiar world in which women are divided into rigid binaries-clean or dirty, good or bad-with stark language that builds into utter absurdity.

In fresh and poetic prose, Raimundo Neto brings us lesser-known narratives of queer life in rural Brazil, including the story of a boy determined to become the 'harvest bride' at a the local annual harvest dance. This far-reaching, bilingual assortment of fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and photography-erotic and personal, revolutionary, hopeful, joyous, and bitter-continues the legacy of defiant queer expression in Brazil and demands its prolific, unapologetic future. For the first time, and against the backdrop of Bolsonaro's emboldened far-right regime, Brazil's legendary and pioneering queer writers appear together in English translation.

Cuíer by Caio Fernando Abreu