Considered the greatest long poem in 20th century Brazilian poetry, Ferreira's Gullar's Dirty Poem was written as a response to the Brazilian dictatorship that put him in exile and murdered thousands.  Written in 1975 in Buenos Aires when Ferreira Gullar was in political exile from the Brazilian dictatorship, Dirty Poem is an epic poem that amid life events traces the author’s political and artistic evolution and is by most accounts the most important long poem of contemporary Brazilian literature. Scholar and critic Otto Maria Carpeaux wrote: “Dirty Poem deserves to be called ‘National Poem’ because it embodies all of the experiences, victories, defeats, and hopes in the life of the Brazilian citizen.” It is a hypnotic work that draws on the poet’s memory of adolescence in the seaside city of Sao Luís do Maranhao during World War II and deals openly with the “dirty” shamefulness of a socio-economic system that abuses its citizens with poverty, sexism, greed, and fear.

Dirty Poem (New Directions Poetry Pamphlets)

Literature & Fiction

Gullar, Ferreira

Poetry

New Directions

New Directions Poetry Pamphlets 17-19 A three-pack of our Spring 2015 Poetry Pamphlets, featuring: A Hermit's Guide to Home Economics, by Robert Lax Dirt Poem, by Ferreira Gullar Hospital Series, by Amelia Rosselli

Poetry Pamphlets 17-19 (New Directions Poetry Pamphlets)

Lax, Robert

Rosselli, Amelia

<p>As an art critic, political essayist, playwright and poet, Ferreira Gullar (born 1930) has been a key figure in the Brazilian cultural scene of the last 60 years. His extensive poetic output has been closely intertwined with his work as an art critic, from his first major collection of poems in 1954, through his Concrete and Neoconcrete poems from 1957 to 1959 and the “Neoconcrete Manifesto” and the “Theory of the Non-Object” of 1959. All are now essential reference texts in Brazilian and Latin American literature, deeply influencing generations of artists. This publication presents conversations conducted over the past two years between Gullar and art historian Ariel Jiménez. Gullar discusses everything from his childhood and early education in San Luis to his current writing, providing a full picture of this influential Brazilian poet and intellectual.</p>

Ferreira Gullar in Conversation with Ariel Jiménez (FUNDACION CISNE)

Jiménez, Ariel

Humor & Entertainment

Fundación Cisneros/Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros

<p>Poemas selecionados por Walmir Ayala e com prefácio de Tristão de Athayde. A poesia social de Ferreira Gullar assume uma posição autêntica frente aos aspectos sociais e culturais modernos. Seu lirismo trágico e subversivo é um pequeno mundo dos problemas mais candentes da beleza poética.</p>

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