| Education by Stone Contributor(s): De Melo Neto, Joao Cabral (Author), Zenith, Richard (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0974968013 ISBN-13: 9780974968018 Publisher: Archipelago Books OUR PRICE: $14.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2005 Annotation: "Joo 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 Joo 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | European - Spanish & Portuguese - Poetry | Caribbean & Latin American - Literary Collections | Essays |
| Dewey: 869.142 |
| LCCN: 2004020750 |
| Physical Information: 0.79" H x 6.12" W x 7.58" (0.84 lbs) 275 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Latin America |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Imagine making poems the way an architect designs buildings or an engineer builds bridges. Such was the ambition of Jo o Cabral de Melo Neto. Though a great admirer of the thing-rich poetries of Francis Ponge and of Marianne Moore, what interested him even more, as he remarked in his acceptance speech for the 1992 Neustadt International Prize for Literature, was 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. |