Jet Lag - by Waly Salomão

Illustrated with monotypes by Luiz Zerbini and organized by Omar Salomão, this anthology is an invitation to reflect on the meaning of traveling ― and returning to one's own home.

“Travelling, for what and where,/ if we become more unhappy/ when we return?”, asks Waly Salomão in the emblematic “Jet-lagged Poem”. The journey appears as one of the central themes in the work of the poet of Syrian origin, born in Jequié, Bahia, and based in Rio de Janeiro. The displacement, as we can see, makes up a rich testimony of the author's journey ― both intimate and poetic ―, but it also works as a provocation to the reader: “wander attached and wander stranded”, he advises in “Boarding Fare”.
By bringing together verses from one of the main voices of Brazilian culture of the 20th century, this anthology attests that travel, like poetry, offers the possibility of understanding the world with new eyes, expanding borders, returning in another way - in other words , transform.