Literature & Literary Studies
November 2019
Poetry authors in Brazil
16 Brazilian poets to read today
by António Carlos Cortez
The book 'Poetics with Diction - 16 Brazilian poets to read today' is a sublime encounter between Portugal and Brazil, governed by the poet, literary critic, teacher and essayist Portuguese Antonio Carlos Cortez, as previously reported by Jaguatirica in Brazil, with the anthology "The Exact time" and the poetry book "Crows, Snakes, Jackals", shortlisted for the Oceans Award. In this book of essays, Cortez focuses such conductor on a symphony of contemporary Brazilian authors and their poetic diction, which makes a point of mentioning specific as compared to the Lusitanian. Alexandra Maia, Ana Cristina Cesar, Antonio Cicero, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Carlos Nejar, Chico Buarque, Eucanaã Ferraz, José Paulo Paes, Ledo Ivo, Louis Maffei, Manoel de Barros, Paulo Henriques Britto, Renato Russo, Sergio Nazar David, Simone Brantes and Vinicius de Moraes are sixteen colleagues chosen to serve as inspiration to fill the pages of this book with bright notes of Antonio Carlos Cortez, besides the part specially reserved for the work of Clarice Lispector.
