Book, Roll: poems[LS]

In the work of Armando Freitas Filho, diversified over more than fifty years of poetic work, Home, (2009), Dever (2013) and this Roles form an involuntary trilogy. The atmosphere of the three books is the same. Themes are treated with meticulousness and relevance, and issues of a daily, philosophical, memorial, erotic, and lyrical nature are revisited, reviewed from different angles, or reiterated in an attempt to achieve greater density and knowledge in the new elaboration.. Unlike the previous books, this one is structured through ten series of poems and three long ones: “Borrowed pens”, “Suite for Rio” and “In passing”. Under the general titles, each of the series will analogically open the range of the motivating subject of the correlations, arranged in the development of the composition. Some of them incorporated subtitles that imposed themselves in the course of writing. And the book closes with “Numeral”, which has been held since 1999. The poetry of numerals does not end, it will continue in the next or the next books, without a closing date, on the virtual horizon line. The sequence of chapters deals, as the "Preface-poem" says, "with a little of everything," with death seen up close by the 76-year-old poet as a backdrop.. The work, for that very reason, is austere: writing with diligence and courage. It's not quite a farewell book, since much was left out of this volume. The author will still have something to say to his readers, as the collection of poems by Armando Freitas Filho that remained in the drawer awaits its future opportunity, as he says in Rol: “But there is still a ‘tremulous melody’/ worth listening to, to record as/ accompaniment to my particular time/ which would be little, but which would at least/ give a glimpse of everyone's time”.