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Margarida Vale de Gato (b. Vendas
Novas, Portugal, 1973) has a Ph.D. in
North American Literature and Culture
and teaches in the University of Lisbon.
Hers is a strong contemporary voice,
as a poet, translator (Poe, Melville,
Dickinson), and academic, teaching
both translation at the graduate level
as well as American studies.
Translated fromPortuguese by Richard
Simas
Margarida
Vale de Gato