In poems brilliantly textured and layered, Salgado Maranh瓊o integrates socio-political thought with subjects abstractly metaphysical. Concrete collides with conceptual?butcher shops, sex, and
machine guns in conversation with language, absence, and time?resulting in a collection varied as well as unified, an aesthetic at once traditional and postmodern. Writing in forms both fixed
and free, Maranh瓊o�� language suggests a jazz-like musicality that rings true in Alexis Levitin�� masterful translations. For readers who enjoy the complexity of Charles Simic, or the
stylistically innovative syntax of C矇sar Vallejo, Maranh瓊o�� Blood of the Sun is a sensually provocative amalgamation of both.
