Haroldo de Campos (1929-2003) taught literary theory at the Pontificia Universidade Catolica in Sao Paulo for most of his life and published several volumes on translation theory and on Brazilian and international literature. He was a prolific translator who introduced the work of many foreign poets to Brazil, beginning in the early 1950s with Ezra Pound, and most recently Charles Bernstein. His last work of translation, Homer's illad, has been published in two volumes by Mandarim in Brazil. A. S. Bessa is the Director of Education of The Bronx Museum of the Arts in New York City. Odile Cisneros is assistant professor of Spanish and Portuguese and Latin-American Studies at the University of Alberta in Canada.