Poetry. Bilingual Edition. With ten books of poetry to his name, also several long translations and an anthology of contemporary Brazilian poetry he co-edited, Regis Bonvicino has come to be recognized as one of the most talanted and inventive of Brazilian writers. Bonvicino's poetry is filled with the imagery of nature, with the flora and fauna of his homeland; but his work is also about the urban landscape of Sao Paulo where he lives. While his poems often contain narrative passages, his work is centered on the play of sound and syntax, of rhyme and intense rhythmic shifts. His work is at once playful and wise, a poetry recognizing the serendipity of our lives while lyrically pointing to beauty everywhere around us, even meshed in urban blight.