Peter Lownds
LATEST ARTICLES BY Peter Lownds
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‘Banzeiro Òkòtó: The Amazon as the Center of the World’: A review essay
February 5, 2025It took me more than a month to get through this book. I sometimes felt I was picking my way through a mosquito- and snake-infested forest guided by an impetuous Amazon warrior who opened her breast...
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Memories of Abdias Nascimento, founder of Brazil’s Black Experimental Theatre
July 18, 2024They spanned the first and second millennia like twin colossi and will remain in the hearts and minds of millions of people whom they encouraged to sunder the bondage of oppression.
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‘The Slackers and Other Stories’: Earnest purpose, useful lessons and enjoyable reading
July 19, 2022The Slackers, comprising five separate short stories, presents small slices of historical fiction about the land the Romans called “Lusitania.”
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Guiomar’s story: Putting Paulo Freire’s philosophy of literacy into practice
April 8, 2021When Guiomar Albuquerque was 13 years old, she began to teach fishermen in the Ilha do Maruim (Mosquito Island) favela of Olinda how to read and write.
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A new year poem for Latin America, ‘La Paciente’
January 4, 2021Latin America lies on a hospital gurney after yet another amputation...
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Brazilian singer Vital Farias’ ‘An Amazon Tale’ in poetic new English translation
November 23, 2020English lyrics for Brazilian singer/songwriter Vital Farias’ “Saga da Amazônia,” a poetic translation.
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Ode to Flo (1929-2020)
October 5, 2020The poet uses the Yiddish word “chutzpadik,” which means “nervy.”
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