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Education by Stone: Selected Poems (Paperback)(English / Portuguese)
$18.11 - Free delivery worldwide (to United States and
all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 24 hours | |Short Description for Education by StonePerhaps the single most important Brazilian poet of the 20th century. Same vein as Wallace Stevens and James Merrill.
Full description- Publisher: ARCHIPELAGO BOOKS
- Published: 28 February 2005
- Format: Paperback 275 pages
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- Categories: Poetry By Individual Poets | Literary Essays | Literary Studies: General
- ISBN 13: 9780974968018 ISBN 10: 0974968013
- Sales rank: 531,731
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"Joao Cabral de Melo Neto is one of Brazil's most acclaimed poets . . . From his early days, Mr. Cabral has written poems that are marked by a captivating use of simple language."--"New York Times Book Review"Disdaining personal revelation and sentimental vision, the poems of Joao Cabral de Melo Neto (1920-1999) present squalor, desperation and injustice without comment or obvious compassion. Other poems pay homage to such subjects as chewing gum and aspirin. What interests Cabral, as he remarked in his acceptance speech for the 1992 Neustadt International Prize for Literature, is "the exploration of the materiality of words," the "rigorous construction of . . . lucid objects of language." His poetry, hard as stone and light as air, is like no other.
