Book, Something old[LS]

Language: Brazilian Portuguese. New book of poems by one of today's most inventive artists. “here lies/ the present// eternal because eternal// fleeting mind”, writes Arnaldo Antunes. In his new book, the composer and poet mixes poems, visual poems and photographs to talk about time — the present and also the past: “I don’t miss/ what I experienced// because everything/ is here”. Isolation, the news and politics are the central axes of these verses which, with humor and sensitivity, impress with their timeliness and forcefulness. For Noemi Jaffe: “In what was perhaps the most difficult year of our lives, a year of pandemic and the beginning of a dictatorship, Something old echoes the loneliness of each one 'isolated/ by an army of deserts', each one as a ' amputee crowd'. But it is by 'sticking the dagger of meaning into the word' that each of these multitudes recovers and remakes its possible meanings, ready for what was, is and will be.”