Copyright © 1976 by Ferreira Gullar

Translation copyright © 1990, 2015 by Leland Guyer

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This translation was first published by the University Press of America in 1990 and then later in the anthology Ferreira Gullar: An Ordinary Man, published by Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros in 2013. It has been substantially revised for this edition.

Cover design by Erik Carter

Interior design by Eileen Krywinski and Erik Rieselbach

Manufactured in the United States of America

First published as New Directions Poetry Pamphlet #18 in 2015

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Gullar, Ferreira, 1930–

[Poema sujo. English]

Dirty poem / Ferreira Gullar; translated by Leland Guyer.

ISBN 978-0-8112-2395-9

ISBN 978-0-8112-2478-9 (e-book)

I. Guyer, Leland, translator. II. Title.

PQ9698.17.U53P613 2015

869.1'42— dc23                     2014032855

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