Published in January 2025.

“The gestures of this voice can feel soft or pointed or sky-clear, but they are decidedly nonsingular; they hinge and turn and subtract and divide and transmute. It is a sheer pleasure to move through these lines.”—Endi Bogue Hartigan.

Nature Talk is a selection of poems originally written in Portuguese and published in Brazil between 2011 and 2015. Written when the poet was living in Portand, Oregon, the poems present a reflection on her own culture in contrast with her experience in the U.S.

Flávia Rocha is a Brazilian writer and journalist, author of four books of poems published in Brazil: Exosfera (Editora Nós, 2021, also available in Portugal), Um País (Confraria do Vento, 2015), Quartos Habitáveis (Confraria do Vento, 2009) and A Casa Azul ao Meio-Dia (Travessa dos Editores, 2005), and of the children’s book O Jardim de Érica (Editora Nós, 2023).

She has an M.F.A. in Writing from Columbia University, and for 13 years was the editor-in-chief of Rattapallax, a literary magazine based out of New York City. In the area of Film, she is a screenwriter and the founder of Academia Internacional de Cinema, a film school located in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

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