Description: In this revised and expanded version of an essay that originally served as an introduction to Ex Voto: Poems of Adelia Prado (Tupelo Press, 2013), renowned poet and translator Ilya Kaminsky examines the embodied religious devotion of one of Brazil's greatest poets, asking what it means to be a mystic in our time. The chapbook also includes an uncollected Prado translation by Ellen Dore Watson.
