A selection of extraordinarily condensed emotionally complex philosophical poems by one of the most unique and highly regarded 20th century Brazilian poets.In her lifetime Orides Fontela resisted all labels all attempts to situate her work in a particular movement school tendency or tradition. Here in her first ever Englishlanguage collection Fontelas poetry continues to defy easy categorization. In these concise meditative poems Fontelaampamp8217s bird and flower water and stone blood and star can be read as symbols indicating a possible tendency toward mysticism. Including an illuminating statement of poetics and excerpts from her often acerbic interviews One Impossible Step introduces Englishlanguage audiences to an iconoclast who remains one across languages and decades.