Tuesday, May 5, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Skylight Books, Los Angeles
 **In the first selected volume of Ricardo Domeneck’s work to appear in English, the acclaimed Brazilian poet constructs a hyperbolic spiral of artifice, rage, and tenderness.** A consummately international poet, Domeneck centers the body “in all its moisture and all its fluids,” while never settling on a master style. Writing with tenderness and anger about earthly experience, friendship, love, and nature, and reacting against the previous generation’s anti-lyrical, impersonal _poesia de invenção_, Domeneck introduced a dense corporeal lyricism salted with camp at its high and low limits into contemporary Brazilian experimental poetry. Chris Daniels’s translation draws from more than two decades of the poet’s work. **Ricardo Domeneck** is a Brazilian writer based in Berlin. He has published ten collections of poems and two of short prose in Brazil and Portugal. He is the recipient of two of Brazil’s most prestigious literary awards, the Prêmio Jabuti and the Prêmio Alphonsus de Guimaraens, and selected volumes of his poems have appeared in German, Dutch and Spanish. Working with sound and performance, he has presented work in several museums and galleries. First Epistle to the Amphibians (World Poetry, 2026) is the first book of his poetry to appear in English translation. **Chris Daniels** is a feral translator of global Lusophone poetry. He has published book-length translations of poetry by Fernando Pessoa, Josely Vianna Baptista, Adelaide Ivánova, Lubi Prates, and Orides Fontela. His selected volume of Ricardo Domeneck’s poems, First Epistle to the Amphibians, will be released by World Poetry Books in April 2026. **Hilary Kaplan** is an award-winning translator of writers from Brazil, including Angélica Freitas (Rilke Shake), Marília Garcia, Paloma Vidal, and Ricardo Domeneck. She has collaborated with Chris Daniels on poems by Angélica Freitas. She lives in Los Angeles.