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Description for Dirty Poem
Paperback. Translator(s): Guyer, Leland. Series: New Directions Poetry Pamphlets. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 9. Weight in Grams: 128.
Written in 1975 in Buenos Aires when Ferreira Gullar was in political exile from the Brazilian dictatorship, Dirty Poem is an epic poem that amid life events traces the author’s political and artistic evolution and is by most accounts the most important long poem of contemporary Brazilian literature. Scholar and critic Otto Maria Carpeaux wrote: “Dirty Poem deserves to be called ‘National Poem’ because it embodies all of the experiences, victories, defeats, and hopes in the life of the Brazilian citizen.” It is a hypnotic work that draws on the poet’s memory of adolescence in the seaside city of Sao ... Read more
Written in 1975 in Buenos Aires when Ferreira Gullar was in political exile from the Brazilian dictatorship, Dirty Poem is an epic poem that amid life events traces the author’s political and artistic evolution and is by most accounts the most important long poem of contemporary Brazilian literature. Scholar and critic Otto Maria Carpeaux wrote: “Dirty Poem deserves to be called ‘National Poem’ because it embodies all of the experiences, victories, defeats, and hopes in the life of the Brazilian citizen.” It is a hypnotic work that draws on the poet’s memory of adolescence in the seaside city of Sao ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation United States
Number of pages
64
Condition
New
Series
New Directions Poetry Pamphlets
Number of Pages
64
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780811223959
SKU
V9780811223959
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About Ferreira Gullar
Poet, artist, art critic, essayist, dramatist, journalist, and scriptwriter, Ferreira Gullar (b. 1930), is the central figure of the Neo-Concretes and best known for his work Poema Sujo (Dirty Poem). He currently lives and writes in Rio de Janeiro. Leland Guyer is the translator of many Brazilian writers of poetry, fiction and non-fiction, and is Professor of Spanish and Portuguese ... Read more
Reviews for Dirty Poem
"One of the region’s most important poets."
Art Forum "I am a fervent admirer of Ferreira Gullar’s scandalously beautiful Dirty Poem. It makes me feel like a child before a tropical forest or a soaring monument."
Clarice Lispector "In fine translation from the Portuguese, Leland Guyer captures the richness of language of Gullar's poetry
from local idioms to the language of ... Read more
Art Forum "I am a fervent admirer of Ferreira Gullar’s scandalously beautiful Dirty Poem. It makes me feel like a child before a tropical forest or a soaring monument."
Clarice Lispector "In fine translation from the Portuguese, Leland Guyer captures the richness of language of Gullar's poetry
from local idioms to the language of ... Read more