TY - BOOK AU - Xavier,Francisco Cńdido - Chico AU - Fernando,Jeremy AU - Fernando,Jeremy AU - Peqeuno,Vitor AU - Peqeuno,Vitor TI - Poetry from Beyond the Grave SN - 9789081709194 PY - 2013/// CY - Brooklyn, NY PB - punctum books KW - Poetry by individual poets KW - bicssc KW - Brazil KW - poetry KW - spirit medium KW - spiritism N1 - Open Access N2 - Poetry from Beyond the Grave is the first English publication of a large selection of poems by the Brazilian medium and Spiritist leader Francisco Cńdido "Chico" Xavier. These poems, originally collected in the volume Parnaso de Alm̌-Tm͠ulo, were dictated to Xavier by a variety of spirits of Brazilian poets from the afterlife, as journeying souls or as witnesses of the spiritual city Nosso Lar, "our house." Poetry from Beyond the Grave is a veritable collection of haunted writing, in which poets present their posthumous work as if they were alive. The brilliant translation by Vitor Pequeno is supplemented by an extensive afterword by Jeremy Fernando, who traces what it means to speak through the other UR - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/25408 UR - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/b5446332-6856-44d9-85d5-871bf4eabec9/1004687.pdf ER -