No Gods Live Here

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Poems

By Conceio Lima and Conceico Lima

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WINNER OF THE 2021 WORDS WITHOUT BORDERS - ACADEMY OF AMERICAN POETS POEMS IN TRANSLATION CONTEST No Gods Live Here, the first book-length collection by a woman from São Tomé to appear in English, is grounded in the lush islands' history of slavery, colonialism, and independence.... Read More

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WINNER OF THE 2021 WORDS WITHOUT BORDERS - ACADEMY OF AMERICAN POETS POEMS IN TRANSLATION CONTEST

No Gods Live Here, the first book-length collection by a woman from São Tomé to appear in English, is grounded in the lush islands' history of slavery, colonialism, and independence.

A career-spanning collection from a giant of Santomean poetry, Conceição Lima, No Gods Live Here catalogues and memorialises the cruelties and triumphs of the country's past alongside the poet's own childhood poems set against the tiny island nation's distinctive flora and geography. Through vivid imagery, Lima evokes São Tomé and Príncipe, from popular Santomean music to imagery of fishermen on the beach, while remaining ever aware of the subjective meeting of memory, time, and place.

Through poetry, Lima unites past and present to resurrect hope in human creation and the possibility of metamorphosis.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781646053322

Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 30 May 2024

Country: United States

Imprint: Deep Vellum Publishing

Illustration: Illustrations

Contributors:

Translated by Shook

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 228.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 225

Collections

Arts & Culture Conceico Lima Conceio Lima Non-Fiction Poetry

About the Author

Conceico Lima was born in 1961 in the island nation of So Tome and Prncipe, where she resides today. She studied journalism in Portugal and attended graduate school in London, where she later worked as a producer at the BBC's Portuguese Language Service. She has published four books of poetry: O tero da Casa (The Womb of the House) in 2004, A Dolorosa Raiz do Micond (The Painful Root of the Micond) in 2006, O Pas de Akendengue (The Country of Akendengue) in 2011, and Quando Florirem Salambs no Tecto do Pico (When Velvet Tamarinds Flower on Pico de So Tome) in 2015. Her work in Shook's translation has appeared in the Literary Review, Jai-Alai, and World Literature Today.

Shook is a poet and translator whose work with Conceico Lima has been recognized with a 2017Translation Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and as a winner of the 2021 WordsWithout Borders-Academy of American Poets Poems in Translation Contest.