When Azorean poetry speaks again, in another tongue

Rui Duarte Rodrigues was born in Angra do Heroísmo, Terceira, Açores.  He has published a couple of books of poetry and is a broadcast journalist for the regional radio station RDP-A.  He has also published poems in literary supplements and is represented in several anthologies.  He died on March 26 , 2004.

The second voice of the sea…

Across the wide Atlantic, the sea carries more than tides — it carries the whispered dreams of islands. The Second Voice of the Sea gathers the poetry of the Azores and releases it anew in English, so each verse may breathe again in another tongue. Through the alchemy of translation, this Filamentos project from Bruma Publications at the Portuguese Beyond Borders Institute, Fresno State, preserves the winds, the salt, and the saudade of the archipelago, offering them to readers far from its shores. Here, the ocean becomes a page, and the page, an endless sea.

This project is sponsored by the Luso-American Education Foundation.