"The Clean Shirt of It" marks the first Englishtranslation of a full-length poetry title by acclaimed Brazilian poet PauloHenriques Britto. As translator Idra Novey writes in her introduction, "Noother contemporary Brazilian poets write like Britto. At least not with such akeen sense of the relationship between form and content, or pop culture andhigh art."Paulo Henriques Britto has received Brazil's most prestigiousprizes for literature and translation. He lives in Rio de Janeiro, where heteaches at Catholic University. Idra Novey lives in New York City. She receivedthe 2005 Poetry Society of America New York Chapbook Fellowship.