Dirty Poem

by Ferreira Gullar

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811223957
• ISBN13: 9780811223959
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.8" x 8.8"