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Half Love: Meta(de) Amor - Bilingual Poems (English & Portuguese) - A poetic journey

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Half Love: Meta(de) Amor - Bilingual Poems (English & Portuguese) - A poetic journey
Half Love: Meta(de) Amor - Bilingual Poems (English & Portuguese) - A poetic journey

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Half Love: Meta(de) Amor - Bilingual Poems (English & Portuguese) - A poetic journey

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A bilingual poetry book in English and Portuguese that touches on subjects such as love and loss, trauma and healing, femininity and feminism, homesickness, immigration, and second language learning

Inside its pages, you'll find a decade of an immigrant broken down into
six chapters that talk about life, love, loss, and moral
. Each chapter alternates between poems written in Portuguese translated to English, and poems written in English translated to Portuguese. They take readers through a
journey
where the author survives a "voluntary exile" leaving the doors of new possibilities open. And hope is always good news, right?
The book is also the portal that divides two worlds:
the U.S. and Brazil
, leaving brain and heart halved: half English, half Portuguese, half love, half-life. Inside these pages, expectations of what was thought of as bad-planned adventures are kept safe. Dreams, love stories gone wrong, pondering about life and death fill up
words that try to flip the narrative
.
In the crossroads of a
bilingual life
, everything happens in a
simultaneous translation of cultures, feelings, and voices
as if the words are melting themselves in a pot. The translations made by the author herself are a tentative of putting together cultural pieces of the collective consciousness of
Latin-Americans
, and the well-known North-American individuality, adjusting the volumes of two languages just so the button in the middle is no longer the silence of interrupted noises.

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