num_pages: 275
description: Imagine making poems the way an architect designs buildings or an engineer builds bridges. Such was the ambition of Joo Cabral de Melo Neto. Though a great admirer of the thing-rich poetries of Francis Ponge and of Marianne Moore what interested him even more as he remarked in his acceptance speech for the 1992 Neustadt International Prize for Literature was the exploration of the materiality of words the rigorous construction of (. . .) lucid objects of language. His poetry hard as stone and light as air is like no other.
language: English
title: Education by Stone: Selected Poems
publisher: Archipelago