Book, Luggage (Adélia Prado)[LS]

Language: Brazilian Portuguese. "Adélia Prado's first book, Bagagem shows the talent that would make the writer one of the most acclaimed poets in Brazilian literature. Originally published in 1976, Bagagem was read and received with excitement by Carlos Drummond de Andrade, who, an enthusiast of Adélia's work, indicated its publication. The book contains texts full of emotions that, for the author, are inseparable from creation, even though they are often born from suffering. The sense of religiosity is also present in most of the poems, portraying part of the reality of life in the interior of Brazil. Often, Adélia chooses to expose conflicts between the sacred and the profane, observed from simple things in nature or even from reading a religious text. The unmistakable style of the poems does not just reflect the slow maturation of a work being idealized for four decades (Adélia was 41 years old at the publication of her debut book); it reveals a poet endowed with self-criticism, cultivated slowly and willing to take risks. The late debut displays a rare balance: freshness and maturity, provocation and respect, shamelessness and humility. Bagagem's poems were born from a period in which Adélia wrote incessantly. “The poems practically erupted, loads and overloads of poems appeared. I wrote a lot during this period”, confesses the author. Despite being many and varied, covering themes as diverse as carnal love, divine love, the vocation of the poet, the colors and pains of life, the texts have a unity, a peculiar speech. “Among other titles that occurred to me, Luggage was what summed up, for me, what I cannot leave or forget at home. Poetry itself”, summarizes Adélia. “Adélia is lyrical, biblical, existential, she writes poetry like good times: she is under the law, not of men, but of God.” Carlos Drummond de Andrade “Adélia is a poet of written language. But writing dictated by the rhythms of the voice, long cultivated in the liturgy, in the conversation of the inner city, in family memory, in popular songs and in the recitation of poems. Its poetic conception converges on the verb.” Augusto Massi "