Salgado Maranhao

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Salgado Maranhã o won Brazil's prestigious Prê mio Jabuti in 1999 for his book Mural of the Winds. In addition to nine books of poetry, including The Snake's Fists, The Kiss of the Beast, Tiger's Fur, and the very recent (2010) Collected Poetry, he has written song lyrics and made recordings with some of Brazil's leading jazz and pop musicians. Alexis Levitin's translations of Maranhã o's poems have previously appeared in BOMB, Brasil/Brazil, Dirty Goat, Fourth River, Measure, Osiris, Per Contra, Pleiades, Sirena, Spoon River Poetry Review, Subtropics, Turnrow, Words Without Borders, and Xavier Review.