Education by Stone

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, Central & South American, Poetry
Cover of the book Education by Stone by Joao Cabral De Melo Neto, Steerforth Press
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Author: Joao Cabral De Melo Neto ISBN: 9781935744559
Publisher: Steerforth Press Publication: April 26, 2012
Imprint: Archipelago Language: English
Author: Joao Cabral De Melo Neto
ISBN: 9781935744559
Publisher: Steerforth Press
Publication: April 26, 2012
Imprint: Archipelago
Language: English

Imagine making poems the way an architect designs buildings or an engineer builds bridges. Such was the ambition of João Cabral de Melo Neto. Though a great admirer of the thing-rich poetries of Francis Ponge and of Marianne Moore, what interested him even more, as he remarked in his acceptance speech for the 1992 Neustadt International Prize for Literature, was "the exploration of the materiality of words," the "rigorous construction of (. . .) lucid objects of language." His poetry, hard as stone and light as air, is like no other.

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Imagine making poems the way an architect designs buildings or an engineer builds bridges. Such was the ambition of João Cabral de Melo Neto. Though a great admirer of the thing-rich poetries of Francis Ponge and of Marianne Moore, what interested him even more, as he remarked in his acceptance speech for the 1992 Neustadt International Prize for Literature, was "the exploration of the materiality of words," the "rigorous construction of (. . .) lucid objects of language." His poetry, hard as stone and light as air, is like no other.

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