Book, Listen: poems[LS]

Death is the main theme of Listen. Suicides, murders, and wars sometimes occur in scenes that seem straight out of news reports.. It is also significant that one of the sections of the book is titled “Posthumous Memoirs”, dedicated “to the memory of all the lovers/ killed in action”. There are grouped together texts that condense the most extreme affective states. To balance this picture, one of the parts of the book is called “Joy”. The reader is then swept away by an intense beam of colors, vibrations, and desires. There is tenderness and lyricism, but also irony and humor. Decidedly urban, the poems traverse a vast geography, which can refer to extermination and annihilation - Rwanda, Congo or Lebanon - as much as turn to a Brazil distant from the capitals - Cruzeiro do Oeste, Nova Friburgo, Campos Altos, Leopoldina, Dores do Turvo. In this book, we take part in a penetrating listening of the world. Pushing the limits of lyrical expression to the extreme, the poet launched himself to encounter experiences, scenes, facts, characters, words, and in everything we recognize contemporary times and spaces constructed by a singular voice. Thus, violence and delicacy, vehemence and construction, silence and tumult, subjectivity and social emotion are combined.