Ex-Voto: Poems of Adélia Prado
Adelia Pradohas authored eight volumes of poetry and seven volumes of literary prose in Portuguese. The first in her family of laborers to see the ocean or go to college, Prado has lived all her life in the provincial industrial city of Divinopolis in Minas Gerais, Brazil. She has degrees in Philosophy and Religious Education from the University of Divinópolis, and she worked for many years as a schoolteacher.Ellen Dore Watsonwas hailed byLibrary Journalas one of "24 Poets for the 21st Century." Her collections of poetry includeLadder MusicandWe Live in Bodies(Alice James, 2001 and 2002),This Sharpening(Tupelo, 2006), and most recentlyDogged Hearts(book and audio book: Tupelo, 2010). She has also translated a dozen books, includingThe Alphabet in the Park: Selected Poems of Adelia Prado(Wesleyan University Press, 1990) and works by Brazilian poet Ignacio de Loyola Brandao as well as contemporary Arabic poetry (co-translated with Saadi Simawe). She is the Poetry and Translation Editor forThe Massachusetts Reviewand the director of The Poetry Center at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts.