Consecration of the Wolves (The Bitter Oleander Press Library of Poetry; Original Poetry) by Salgado Maranhão

Consecration of the Wolves is a bilingual edition of poems written by the conremporary Brazilian poet Salgado Maranhão translated from the Portuguese by Alexis Levitiin. After experiencing this territory of the sacred wolf in the poetry of Maranhão, we will inevitably understand in a new way the notion of Aristotle that the human being is a “political animal”. Agreeing with the survival of the animal/barbaric side of humanity, at the same time that he insists on the complexity, multiplicity, and fierce beauty of this animal side, the question which Maranhão poses in his poetry is the in our social and political life today, which wolf will we feed? Whence will we give our power, our political and creative energy? The poet―migrant creator, friend of barbarians, animals, and foreigners―continues to dream the answers in this, his journey between pregnant silence and a transformed language. ―Jack A. Draper III (from his afterword)