Posted on 18 January 2021. Azorean Suite: A poem of the moment is fortunately now available in book form, in the original English version, as well as the full translation (into Portuguese) made by the author with José Francisco Costa, who emigrated to the USA, and by Eduardo Bettencourt Pinto, who emigrated to Canada, both poets and prose writers recognized among us here in the Azores and elsewhere. Scott Edward Anderson is one of the most original writers for many reasons but primarily for his late rediscovery of his ancestry and his irrepressible desire to write about the power that the Azores has on him, namely (the island of) São Miguel, from where his great-grandparents left for America, and where he also met with a good number of his relatives currently on the island, who received him with the greatest affection. His great-grandparents emigrated to the New World in 1906, but Scott Edward Anderson investigates earlier centuries, and suspects that his family tree goes back to New Christians, and that also at least some of those same ancestors were tried and burned at the stake in Rossio (Lisbon) between 1559-1576; others were among the 104 Micaelenses [accused of being “Judaizers”]. Anderson explores this story of terror in sections of his poem.