ABOUT
THE AUTHOR AND TRANSLATOR
SÉRGIO MATTOS
was born in Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil in 1948.
Most of his education, through the B.A, was in
Salvador, Bahia. He completed his M.A. in Radio,
Television, Film, and his Ph.D. in International
Communication at the University of Texas at Austin.
He is a member of the faculty of the Federal University
of Bahia.
He was a co-founder
of the poetry magazine, Experimental,
in Bahia. His poetry includes the books: Nas
Teias do Mundo (1973), O Vigia do
Tempo (1977), English translation Time's
Sentinel (1979) by Maria Luisa Nunes,
Já Não Canto, Choro, English translation
I No Longer Singer, I Cry (1980)
by Albert G. Bork, Lançados ao Mar
(1985), Asas Para Amar (1995), Estandarte
(1995) e Trilha Poética (coming
out 1998). His work has appeared in many magazines
and literary supplements in Brazil and in the
anthologies Cinco Poetas Contemporâneos(1974)
and Retina (1975).
ALBERT G. BORK
was born in Mexico, D.F., Mexico. His Ph.D. dissertation
was on Doramundo by the Brazilian author Geraldo
Ferraz. He has taught Portuguese, Spanish, and
French at the Universities of Texas, Nebraska,
Iowa and others. He works as an interpreter and
translator.
