Хилда Хилст – лучшие книги

Quinto título das Obras reunidas de Hilda Hilst publicadas pela Editora Globo, Cantares reúne dois livros de poemas, publicados, respectivamente, em 1983 e 1995: Cantares de perda e predileção e Cantares do sem nome e de partidas. Obras breves, ambas constituem um dos instantes mais densos do lirismo hilstiano, que aqui revisita o tema do amor, dentro da melhor tradição da língua portuguesa. A história do livro. Cantares de perda e predileção recebeu os prêmios Jabuti, da Câmara Brasileira do Livro, e Cassiano Ricardo, do Clube de Poesia de São Paulo. O que se diz. Segundo J. L. Mora Fuentes, escritor e jornalista, que compartilha a…

In Letters from a Seducer, Hilst describes the everyday life of Karl, a wealthy, erudite, and amoral man who seeks an answer to his incomprehension of life through sex. Karl writes and sends twenty provocative letters to Cordelia, his chaste sister. The letters’ text becomes intertwined with the life of the poet Stamatius, who finds Karl’s letters in the trash. It quickly dawns upon the reader that both men are in fact the same person albeit at different points of time and circumstance. This mirror play is the guiding trope for a uniquely grand work.

If life is no more than a prolonged flirtation with death, then Hilda Hilst's Of Death. Minimal Odes is the true account of a lifelong seduction. It is at once both a reverie and reliquary, as the poet imagines and reimagines that most paradoxical moment of disintegration—the corporeal flesh fusing with death's own dark corpus. With a visceral‐mystical poetic voice that is as teasingly unrestrained as it is intellectually sublime, Hilst's odes enact a baroque danse macabre, where the poet revels in the incongruities of simultaneously seeking the sacred and profane. Translating the first collection of Hilda Hilst's significant body of poetry…