Book, Amorhumorumor: Haikai and Senryu[LS]

Language: Brazilian Portuguese. In this set of brief, very brief poems, Alice Ruiz S and Rodolfo Guttilla set themselves a challenge: after long prose, concentrate everything in three lines of poetry. By rescuing, updating and subverting the rules of haiku and senryu, classic Japanese forms constructed by three verses, Alice Ruiz S and Rodolfo Guttilla establish a delicious, agile and surprising dialogue. With humor and intelligence, the words sparkle and shine on paper — from poet to poet. “With their conversation of verses, flow of flashes, sharing of roundabouts, exchanging of tricks, exchanging of stimuli, bartering of flashes, Alice and Rodolfo offer us, in the ephemeral times of Twitter, a little bit of the eternal.” — Arnaldo Antunes