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Este volume reúne 157 poemas de Cecília Meireles (1901-1964), uma das grandes vozes da poesia em língua portuguesa de todos os tempos. "Motivo", "Retrato", "Epitáfio da navegadora", "Canção excêntrica", "Reinvenção", "Ou isto ou aquilo" – o leitor encontrará aqui estes e outros poemas inesquecíveis da mais lírica poeta do modernismo brasileiro, que cantou como ninguém a reinvenção da vida e a serenidade frente à passagem do tempo.

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Cecília Meireles

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Cecília Benevides de Carvalho Meireles was a Brazilian writer and educator, known principally as a poet. She is a canonical name of Brazilian Modernism, one of the great female poets in the Portuguese language, and is widely considered the best poetess from Brazil, though she rightly combatted the word "poetess" because of gender discrimination.

She traveled in the Americas in the 1940s, visiting the United States, Mexico, Argentina, Uruguay and Chile. In the summer of 1940 she gave lectures at the University of Texas, Austin. She wrote two poems about her time in the capital of Texas, and a long (800 lines) very socially-aware poem "USA 1940", which was published posthumously. As a journalist her columns (crônicas, or chronicles) focused most often on education, but also on her trips abroad in the western hemisphere, Portugal, other parts of Europe, Israel, and India (where she received an honorary doctorate).

As a poet, her style was mostly neo-symbolist and her themes included ephemeral time and the contemplative life. Even though she was not concerned with local color, native vernacular, or experiments in (popular) syntax, she is considered one of the most important poets of the second phase of the Brazilian Modernism, known for nationalistic vanguardism.

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January 1, 2017
Apaixonou-me Cecília, parteira que do mistério e do desengano de existir traz à luz a beleza de uma melancolia serena e contemplativa, linda como o céu cor de chuva daquelas tardes que nos presenteiam com nuvens distantes, volumosas e coroadas de arco-íris.
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1,310 reviews40 followers
January 28, 2022
Tenho tentado acrescentar um pouco de poesia entre minhas leituras, ainda fico presa aquele conceito de "tenho que entender o que leio" e na poesia me disperso muito.
Esse livro traz uma coletânea de várias temáticas poéticas da autora, as minhas preferidas são aquelas voltadas para o público mais infantil. Ainda estou engatinhando.


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11/01/2022

"Plena mata. Silêncio. Nem um pio De ave ou bulir de folha. Unicamente Ao longe, em suspiroso murmúrio, Do Ganges rola a fúlgida serpente."
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66 reviews52 followers
January 5, 2021
4.5 ⭐

com certeza um dos meus livros favoritos de poesia até agora. ela é o momento.
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