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A chance find at the library: the selected poems of Brazilian poet João Cabral de Melo Neto, newly translated into French. I don't know if it's me, the work or the translation, but it didn't click, & I was so sure it would.
Statue of Cabral in his home town, Recife, #Brazil, photographed by Marcus Guimarães via Wikimedia Commons
Dilara Here's a link to Chico Buarque's 1966 song Funeral De Um Lavrador https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jF_YGEAeQgw - lyrics taken from Cabral's play in verse The Death and Life of a Severino, which I still want to read. It was also made into a film in the 70s 9mo