{"product_id":"the-art-of-being-a-ana-lusa-amaral-9781933227818","title":"The Art of Being a Tiger: Selected Poems","description":"Ana Luísa Amaral, one of Portugal's most acclaimed contemporary writers, was born in Lisbon in 1956. A scholar of Anglo-American literatures with a doctoral dissertation on Emily Dickinson, she published her first collection of poetry, \u003ci\u003eMinha Senhora de Quê \u003c\/i\u003e(\u003ci\u003eMistress\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eof What), in 1990. The Art of Being a Tiger\u003c\/i\u003e offers a representative selection of Amaral's poems, from the 1990s to the present, in a precise and luminous translation by Margaret Jull Costa. The collection highlights the poet's manifold intertextual engagements--from Portugal's literary giants, Luís de Camões and Fernando Pessoa, to landmarks of second-wave feminist theorizing such as Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar's \u003ci\u003eThe Madwoman in the Attic\u003c\/i\u003e. It foregrounds Amaral's passionate attentiveness to the here and now, as likely to result in transformative explorations of everyday scenarios of domesticity as to lead the poet to confront large-scale political crises of her day. Such is the capacious receptivity of Amaral's art of thereness, with its responsive capability always already disciplined by a poetics that is at once formally demanding and deeply idiosyncratic, and its artfulness always already in the process of yielding to the unpredictable pressures of the real.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ana Luísa Amaral\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1933227818\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781933227818\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Tagus Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/04\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 236\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.83lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.80h x 5.80w x 0.60d","brand":"Ana Luísa Amaral","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43937530020095,"sku":"9781933227818","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_9d2932b0-7baf-48c4-8cd0-c3aaac08ac0e.jpg?v=1681430607","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-art-of-being-a-ana-lusa-amaral-9781933227818","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}