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Adília Lopes

Side by side

Thirty-year-old Woman

You’ll love
my shiny
nose
my stretch marks
my blackheads
my writings
my ailments
my quirks
and my cats that go
with being a spinster
or else you won’t love me

La femme de trente ans

Amarás
o meu nariz
brilhante
as minhas estrias
os meus pontos pretos
os meus textos
os meus achaques
e as minhas manias
e as minhas gatas
de solteirona
ou não me amarás

Adília Lopes

(Portugal, 1960)

Adília Lopes self-published her first book, in 1985, under the title A Rather Dangerous Game, a fitting epithet for her entire poetic career. The very fact of self-publishing entailed a risk, since it didn’t make for easy distribution, and the more than 15 books she has published since then have nearly all been issued by ‘alternative’ or ‘underground’ presses – very much on the margin of Portug...

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Thirty-year-old Woman

You’ll love
my shiny
nose
my stretch marks
my blackheads
my writings
my ailments
my quirks
and my cats that go
with being a spinster
or else you won’t love me

Thirty-year-old Woman

You’ll love
my shiny
nose
my stretch marks
my blackheads
my writings
my ailments
my quirks
and my cats that go
with being a spinster
or else you won’t love me