Seven Faces: Brazilian Poetry Since Modernism

by Charles A. Perrone

Brazil, perhaps more than any other nation of the Americas, has placed poetry at the forefront of dialogue and debate about the limits and uses of art, the social duties of artists, and the nature of nationalism and national identity. In Seven Faces, Charles A. Perrone charts the course of Brazilian poetry in the contemporary period through the principal currents, multiple tendencies, and aesthetic tensions that have made the Brazilian lyric...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822318148
• ISBN13: 9780822318149
• Release Date: August 1996
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 9.3"