Saudades

Some say that the emotion of saudade is about the love that remains after someone or something you love deeply has gone.

But feeling or having saudade is about so much more.

Saudades -- a global collaboration -- features the work of 28 multimedia artists representing 12 countries.

Through poetry, short stories, song lyrics, art, and fine art photography, they join Amy to undertake the exploration of the beautiful complexity of this word that may be for an ardent desire, a deep seated longing, a bittersweet nostalgia, a haunting melancholy, a mysterious incomplete-ness, a desperate yearning, a poignant sadness, an elusive wish, an irreplaceable loss, a pervasive sense of missing-ness, and other nuances unraveled in the book. Though the word saudade is untranslatable into English, the experience of this emotion is universal.

Saudades delves into the different forms of the emotion of saudade as it pertains to persons, places, identity and time.

Saudades will inspire you to commence a profound and contemplative journey through the haunting and enduring landscapes of your past…