Description

The [Pulsing] Language [of a Pulsar] is the long-awaited English debut by Brazilian poet Leonardo Lopes da Silva—a pulsating, multilingual collection of over 140 poems composed over two decades and now reimagined in translation by the author himself. This unique edition brings together original poetry, music albums, and stunning illustrations by artists Vicente Ferreira, Elvira Fernández, Hadjer Hamdache, and Madlen Duderstedt, alongside the poet’s own photography.

Through lush experimental form and Symbolist intensity, Leonardo weaves a cosmic language of longing, trauma, and transformation. Each chapter—some of which are available as companion music albums—explores the boundaries of identity, love, spirituality, and memory, with poetic textures that draw on concrete poetry, surrealism, and spoken word tradition.

Bilingual in soul and multimedia in scope, this book is more than a collection of poems—it’s an invocation, a rupture, a prayer. The [Pulsing] Language [of a Pulsar] invites the reader to surrender to the rhythm of the unsayable.