Almallah replicates his own verbal and cultural experience of existing between languages and societies
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a hopeful record of a gay relationship
the book that matters most is the 1855 original
in the midst of war and doubt
Sheep's Vigil by a Fervent Person Was It for This Almallah replicates his own verbalEirin Moure A temporary move to Toronto in the winter of 2000, a twisted ankle, an empty house all inspired Moure as she read Alberto Caeiro Fernando Pessoa's classic long poem 'O Guardador de Rebanhos'. For fun, she started to translate, altering tones and vocabularies. From the Portuguese countryside and roaming sheep of 1914, a 21st century Toronto emerged, its neighbourhoods still echoing the 1950s, their dips and hollows, hordes of wild cats,