Mitos urbanos e lendas de todo o continente americano se condensam neste poemário. Por suas páginas transitam diversos espectros, tal como invoca e enumera os Chupa-cabras em um dos poemas: ”Criaturas da noite e do sol. A Mulher do véu, Muqui, Yasy Yeteré, o Homem-Jacaré, Kharisiri, o Silbón, a Viúva Negra, a Telesita, o Curupira, Tata Duende, Cadejo, o Justo Juiz da Noite, a Mona Bruja, a Santa Muerte, o Demônio de Dover, o Wendigo, a Mulher do lenço, a Mulher da meia-noite. Criaturas do...
Over the course of a year, I undertook the task of working with twenty cartoons that stimulated my imagination. I pretended to reverse the traditional process of illustrating texts. I ”texted” the illustrations daily. The initial objective was to take the characters in a comical way, but they had a lot to tell me. It was the characters who whispered the words to me. They always had a life of their own and I couldn't dominate them anymore. All the poems, stories and monologues, in a way...
Tutto ciò che inizia un giorno avrà una fine e i versi che trovi qui seguono quello stesso destino. Quanto tempo tra le dita mentre si scrivono pensieri veri che vengono fuori poco a poco. Momenti vissuti che forse ti piaceranno di ciò che ho condiviso che un giorno leggerai. AMORE
Winner of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award (2012) Smart, grounded, and lyrical, Evie Shockley’s the new black integrates powerful ideas about “blackness,” past and present, through the medium of beautifully crafted verse. the new black sees our racial past inevitably shaping our contemporary moment, but struggles to remember and reckon with the impact of generational shifts: what seemed impossible to people not many years ago—for example, the election of an...
