Angelica Freitas is an acclaimed Brazilian poet whose poetry addresses topics of feminism and LGBTQ issues, in dialogue with poetics of the past. Her first collection, Rilke Shake, was translated into English by Hilary Kaplan, winning both the Best Translated Book Award for poetry and the National Translation Award for poetry in 2016. "A Clean Woman" is from her second collection, Um utero e tamanho de um punho [A womb is the size of a fist], which recently became the subject of attempted censorship in the state assembly of Santa Catarina, Brazil.
