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TRANSLATION Translated from the Portuguese by Rachel Morgernstern-Clarren TRANSLATION Happiness comes naturally to Maria, but freedom sometimes overwhelms her, scatters her, causes her to latch onto the parked train on the grand boulevard of the imaginary.
Sizenando, Life is Sad
RIO-PARIS-RIO (Chapter 1)
Rachel Morgenstern-Clarren
Rachel Morgenstern-Clarren is a poet and translator based in Montreal. Her work appears or is forthcoming in The Common, Best New Poets, Words Without Borders, Ploughshares, and elsewhere, and has been honored with a Hopwood Award, an Academy of American Poets Prize, and a Fulbright Fellowship to Brazil. She holds an MFA in poetry and literary translation from Columbia University, and is a senior editor for Joyland Magazine.