Song of Life - by Gabriel Chalita

Gabriel Chalita celebrates the act of living in poems and aphorisms Song of Life is a book about the most precious asset we all have - life. Here she sings, multiple and challenging, in the voice of Gabriel Chalita, who, with the freedom of poetic prose and the conciseness of aphorisms, turns the act of living into a stage on which unique affections, perceptions and gestures parade. Whether in pain, faith or passion, nothing that is too human escapes him. The many feelings and verses present in the work come from generous listening to many stories that have marked the author over time.

Whether in the lyrical self attentive to what others have in oneself, as in Balaio and Em cada canto, or in the poet who knows how to love with intensity, as in Traição and Exílio, or even in the one who evokes, with sincere devotion, his origins, As in Mother and My Father's Hands, Chalita teaches us that a single man's words can find poignant ways to tell many people what really matters.

Woven with wisdom and delicacy, the song - or was it, in fact, a symphony? - that Chalita offers is capable of touching ears that yearn for sincere melodies, as well as reaching hearts that desire to beat in the rhythm of completeness.